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THE CHEMISTRY OF HUMAN LIFE 







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Ckemistry of Human Life 

Tlie Biockemic Statement of tke 
Cause of Disease and tke Pk$si- 
ological and Ckemical Operation 
of tke Inorganic Salts of tke 
Human Organism and tkeir 
Ckemical Formulas 

DR. GEORGE W. CAREY 

Au&or of Text Booke on 

<Tke Ckemistry of Life 




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Copyright, 1919 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS 

The: Chemistry of Wisdom 7 

A Word from the; Chemistry of Life; 9 

Biochemistry — the Stone the Builders Rejected 11 

Fundamental Principles 14 

Biochemistry and the Biochemic Pathology 16 

The Chemistry of Blood and Tissue 17 

Cellular Pathology . . 21 

The Views of Scientists 23 

The Biochemic Pathology of Exudations, Swellings 

etc 26 

Chemical Operation 28 

Man's Divine Estate 29 

Intuition, or the Infinite Vibraton 31 

The So-called Elements 33 

Esoteric Chemistry 35 

The Fallacy of the Germ Theory of Disease 37 

Diphtheria 46 

Cholera 48 

Pneumonia 51 

Lesson 1 53 

Lesson II 56 

Lesson III 58 

Lesson IV 60 

Lesson V 63 

Lesson VI 64 

Lesson VII 66 

Lesson VIII 68 

Lesson IX 71 

Lesson X '. 73 

Lesson XI 75 

Lesson XII 77 

The Coming Man 78 

5 



THE CHEMISTRY OF WISDOM 

A STATEMENT OF BEING 

LIFE is omnipotent, omniscient and omnipresent. 
Being all, life must be wisdom. So, then, it follows, 
that all forms, appearances, and so-called matter must be life 
or wisdom in that form of expression. 

"Ye are the salt of the earth, but if the salt have lost his 
savour, wherewith shall it be salted ? It is thenceforth good for 
nothing but to be cast out and to be trodden under the foot of 
men." 

God made man from the dust (or mineral) of the earth. / 

God made of one blood, all persons. 

"The blood is the life." 

"The life of the flesh is in the blood." 

"Thou art Peter (Petra-stone or mineral), on thee will I 
build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against 
it." 

The above words are simple statements of chemical and 
physiological facts. 

The mineral salts of the human organism are intelligent en- 
tities, and work under divine guidance which man has desig- 
nated as chemical affinity. 

The molecules of iron, lime, magnesia, potash, etc., must 
have certain substances to work with, such as albumen, fibrin, 
oxygen, water, etc., or they cannot work, that is, "They have 
lost their savour," or substance. 

The mineral salts are the base of the blood and good blood 
is the product of a proper balance of the dynamic molecules. 
Poor, or imperfect blood, is the product of a break in the 
molecular chain of the salts. Having "lost the savour," some 
of the salts are good for nothing, etc., and hence the deficiency 
that causes so-called disease. 



8 The Chemistry of Human Life 

A thing is valuable only as it can be used. If the salt loses 
its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? 

The mineral salts may be present in the system, but we, 
through ignorance of nature's laws, may do that which will 
cause them to become of no value in the construction of the 
body. Not that the cell-salts themselves are changed in any 
way, but that the fluids of the body have become non-func- 
tional. 

Science has proved that emotions of anger, fear, sorrow, 
etc., generate poisons in the human laboratory. Thought is 
the controller of the emotions. Therefore, our wrong thoughts, 
working through the emotions, have caused the fluids of the 
body to become poisoned or vitiated and thus thrown out of 
harmonious relation to the cell-salts, which cannot use non- 
functional oil, albumen, etc., in a manner to produce that har- 
monious condition called health. 

This great chemical fact emphasizes the necessity of care- 
fully guarding our thoughts, and makes plain the statement 
of Holy Writ : "As a man thinketh in his heart so is he." 

Church, temple, house, etc., are derived from the Hebrew, 
Beth, and in the Scriptures these words are used to designate 
the human body. On petra, stone or mineral, the body is built. 

Hell, hades, means stomach, and is derived from the fifteenth 
letter of the Hebrew alphabet, Samech. 

Food is digested in the stomach and intestinal tract to fur- 
nish force, also to set free the mineral or cell-salts, and these 
remain intact and are not in any manner changed; therefore, 
"The gates of hell (grave or stomach) do not prevail against 
them." 

The chemistry of the Old and New Testaments proves that 
the books were written by Masters. 

The wisdom of the ages has produced none greater. 



Disease Nature's Efforts to Restore 
Equilibrium 

DISEASE is an alarm signal, a friend who calls to inform 
us of danger. Disease is an effort to prevent death. 

Therefore, pain and so-called disease is more than a warn- 
ing; it is an effort that opposes death. The symptoms that 
indicate disease are calls, or dispatches, asking for the material 
with which the repair of bodily tissue may be made. Pains or 
discomforts of various functions or structure of the body are 
words asking for the constituent parts of blood, nerve fluids, 
tissue, bone, etc. 

If acids cause pain, the pain is a call for a sufficient amount 
of alkaloid salts to counteract an acid effect and change fluids 
to a bland and natural state. 

Healthy synovial fluid (fluids of the joints) is neither acid 
nor alkali, but yet contains both in combination. Should the 
alkaline salts become deficient in amount, for any cause, the 
acid at once becomes a disturbing element and hurts the nerves 
that pervade the membranes of the periosteum (bone cover- 
ing) of the internal structure of the knee, elbow or other joints 
of the human anatomy. This pain, or word, can not be con- 
sidered bad or malignant in any sense. 

All phenomena appears as a result of Divine, beneficent 
law, hence disease so-called is the result of the orderly pro- 
cedure of that law. In all ages all men and women have been 
sick more or less. In all ages there have been storms, cata- 
clysms, earthquakes and extremes of heat and cold; no one 
questions the wisdom that causes, guides and directs these 
events, then why should we question the wisdom of disease? 
Disease is one phase of the transmutation of matter in the pro- 
cedure of regeneration. 

All methods of healing are phases of the transmutation pro- 
cess. 



10 The Chemistry of Human Life 

When man reaches the plane of understanding (Alchemical 
Knowledge) he will consciously co-operate with the Divine 
Urge by supplying his dynamic laboratory with the mineral 
base of the blood (the Philosopher's Stone), and thus make 
blood the "Elixir of Life" as it is destined to be. 

Consider Biochemistry, thou invalid, study her truths, prac- 
tice her precepts and you will obtain wisdom, and realize that 
you are a worker in the plan of regeneration. 



BIOCHEMISTRY 

"The Stone the Builders Rejected" 

"I know perfectly well my own egotism ; 
I know my omnivorous lines, 
And will not write any less, 
And would fetch you, whoever you are, flush with myself." 

— Walt Whitman. 

THE constituent parts of man's body are perfect principles, 
but the principles are not always perfectly adjusted. 

The planks, bricks, or stones with which a building is to be 
erected are composed of perfect principles, namely, oxygen, 
hydrogen, carbon, lime, iron, silica, potassium, magnesia, etc. 
These principles or elements are eternally perfect per se, but 
may be endlessly diversified in combination. 

The stone which the builders rejected is symbolized by the 
stone which the builders of the pyramid of Cheops failed to 
place in position on the top corner — the pyramid being five- 
cornered, one corner pointing upward, and representing the 
sense of seeing — so the builders of the science of medicine have 
failed to place the mineral basis of blood — the inorganic salts — 
in their place in the human structure or fleshly pyramid. 

When these mineral (stone) principles, or elements, are per- 
fectly placed in the chemical formulae which composes the 
blood, the animal functions proceed in harmonious operation. 
When for any reason these cell-salts, stones, are deficient or 
negative or dormant or get misplaced, i. e., out of combina- 
tion, the stone which must become the head of the corner has 
been rejected by the chemistry of life builders. 

The human body, or pyramid, is a storage battery, and must 
be supplied constantly with the proper elements — chemicals — to 
set up motion or vibration at a rate that will produce what we 
please to call a live body. A failure to keep the storage bat- 
tery supplied with the chemical base of blood causes a disturb- 



12 The Chemistry of Human Life 

ance in the operation of the chemical action of the blood, the 
effect of which is called disease. To give names to these effects 
is the insanity of science. 

The word Peter, or Petra, means "A rock." "Thou art 
Peter; on this rock will I build my church." 

This statement, or word, represents the creative or formative 
principle denning the human organization. The twelve cell- 
salts of the body are stones, i. e., minerals, which on combina- 
tion may be called a rock. These minerals, or rock, attract by 
chemical affinity the aerial elements, and by their union — chem- 
ical operation — the oil, albumen, fibrin, etc., which build up the 
human structure are formed and changed into bone and other 
tissue of the body, and thus build the beth, or church of God ; 
the true church of God is the body. 

The alchemists of old, whom we in our blindness have imag- 
ined were religious teachers, understood the real meaning of 
the statements : The human body is the temple of the living 
God ; and again, the Holy Ghost dwelleth in you, and the king- 
dom of heaven is within you, and Our Father, who art in 
heaven. A temple and a church or beth (Beth-el) mean the 
same. Solomon's temple is a myth, an allegory or symbol of 
the human body, the temple of the living God. Originally it 
was the soul of man's temple, or the temple for the soul. Thus 
we can understand how the temple is built "without the sound 
of saw or hammer." 

The seers, scientists, and alchemists of the early centuries 
of the Pisces, or water age, into which the sun and solar system 
entered about 2200* years ago, realized that, for about that 
period the inhabitants of the earth — souls in flesh — would be a 
lost race; that, while the earth was down deep in the Pisces 
air, dense and watery, the material thought would cognize from 
the individual concept, being so environed that the unity of 
being could not be realized. 

A lack of the knowledge of the unity or completeness of 
being, or the perfection or completeness of the body, or temple 
of being, was symbolized by the allegory of the temple or 



* The solar system entered Aquarius, an air sign, about the year 1900. 
Aquarius is "the Sign of the Sun, or Son, of Man in the heavens." 



The Chemistry of Human Life 13 

pyramid, the capstone rejected — or not yet placed in proper 

position. 

* The mineral salts — rock foundation of the human structure — 

have been rejected by the medical builders for 2,000 years or 

more, but are now, as the earth swings into the air age, or the 

age of Spiritual Man, being recognized as the "Head of the 

Corner." 

Thus we see why the beautiful name, Biochemistry, has 
shone forth from the slowly crystallizing carbon of dead and 
dying isms and pathies, and now glitters like a diamond in the 
crown of science. 

Biochemistry is the "stone the builders rejected." 



FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES 

HERE are a few questions and answers that will enable the 
patient to grasp the fundamental principle of Biochem- 
istry : — 

First. What are the remedies you use? Answer — The in- 
organic salts, as found in healthy human blood. 

Second. What is the meaning of Biochemistry? Answer — 
The chemistry of life. 

Third. Where are the inorganic salts found? Answer — In 
all nature. In the food we eat; in the earth, rock, soil, and 
vegetable, and especially noticeable in mineral springs. 

Fourth. Then why need we take them as medicine? An- 
swer — You need not take them as medicine. No medicine, in 
the common use of the word, is or can be needed; they are 
taken as food, to supply a deficiency. 

Fifth. Why does a deficiency occur, if the food we eat con- 
tains the mineral salts? Answer — Because the digestion and 
assimilation sometimes fail to set them free from the organic 
parts of the food, so that the absorbents can take in a sufficient 
quantity to keep the blood properly balanced; or some extra 
demand has been made upon the system — overwork, physical 
or mental, atmospheric or electric changes, etc. — which have 
too rapidly consumed the vitality of the body. It is then Bio- 
chemistry comes to the rescue. The inorganic vitalizing prin- 
ciples of food, having been set free by chemical process, or pre- 
pared direct from the mineral base, are given as a remedy, and 
are taken in by the absorbents at once, not passing through the 
process of digestion at all, as they are ready for the blood when 
taken. 

There is no such thing as disease, therefore, there cannot be 
any cure, as commonly understood. The symptoms called dis- 
ease and named in Latin or Greek, so that the masses are awed 
and frightened by them, are not things or entities — are not 
something to be combatted, but are simply and only the words, 

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the dispatches, the language nature employs in calling for that 
which is lacking. 

Do you see the difference between something and the lack 
of something? 

"Yes," you say, "but people die from these words, dis- 
patches, language, as you put it." Answer — Let us illustrate: 
A man goes without food for three days and nights, and has 
pains, fevers, headache, etc., but you know he is not "possessed 
of something," but lacks food. You also know he will die if the 
food is not supplied; but the words or dispatches calling for 
food will not kill him, but he will die because of a lack of food. 
You know this, and give him food ; but, if you did not know it, 
you would proceed, according to the old pathology, to try to 
cure the pain, fever, or headache with some poison. "He asked 
for fish, and ye gave him a serpent." 



BIOCHEMISTRY AND THE BIO- 
CHEMIC PATHOLOGY 

A shadow cannot be removed by chemicals, neither can dis- 
ease be removed by poisons. There is nothing (no-thing) 
to be removed in either case ; but there is a deficiency to be sup- 
plied. The shadow may be removed by supplying light to the 
space covered by the shadow. 

So symptoms, called disease, disappear or cease to manifest 
when the food called for is furnished. 

The human body is a receptacle for a storage battery, and 
will always run right while the chemicals are present in proper 
quantity and combination, as surely as an automobile will run 
when charged or supplied with the necessary ingredients to 
vibrate or cause motion. 

There can be but one law of chemical operation in vegetable 
or animal organisms. When man understands and co-operates 
with that life chemistry, he will have solved the problem of 
physical existence. 

When the arteries contain a sufficient quantity of the cell- 
salts, the aerial elements that form the organic portion of blood 
are drawn into them by chemical affinity or magnetic attraction, 
and precipitated or concentrated to the consistency that forms 
the substance known as blood. 

The quality of blood depends entirely upon the chemical 
mineral base. If one or more of the inorganic salts are deficient 
in quantity, the blood will be deficient in vital or magnetic vibra- 
tion and cell and tissue-building substance. 

And so to supply the organism with the mineral principles 
that form the positive pole of blood is the natural law of cure. 

Lymph and the lymphatic system is a part of the complex 
wonderful operation in the process of transmuting the etheric 
substance — aerial elements — into blood, flesh, and bone. 

Biochemistry has been and is now being recognized by the 
most advanced thinkers the world has known. 
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THE CHEMISTRY OF BLOOD AND 

TISSUE 

THE word Biochemistry is formed from bios, the Greek for 
life, and chemistry. Webster defines chemistry as that 
branch of science which treats of the composition of substances 
and the changes which they undergo. Therefore, Biochemistry, 
taken literally, means that branch of science which treats of the 
composition of living substances, both animal and vegetable, and 
of the process of their formation. But usage has given the 
word a somewhat different signification, and the following is a 
more accurate definition: That branch of science which treats 
of the composition of the bodies of animals and vegetables, the 
processes by which the various fluids and tissues are formed, the 
nature and cause of the abnormal conditions called disease, and 
the restoration of health by supplying to the body the deficient 
cell-salt. 

The chemical composition of tissue and the various fluids 
have long been known, but, until Biochemistry was introduced, 
no practical use had been made of this knowledge in the treat- 
ment of the sick. The so-called science of medicine has no 
claim to the name, science. We refer to the old system that 
treats disease as an entity — a something, or at least caused by 
a something instead of a deficiency, which all will admit to be 
a lack of something. It is useless for those who adhere to the 
practice of the drug system to try to defend it. We have the 
testimony of many of their most noted professors and authors, 
that their "system of practice is responsible for more deaths 
than war, pestilence, and famine combined." 

We realize that modern surgery is an exact science. Like 
watch making or house building, it is purely mechanical. In 
anatomical exactness, and in instruments of precision, the ad- 
vances in surgery during the past fifty years have been mar- 
velous. 



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While the diagnosis of disease by surgeons is many times 
at fault, sometimes fatally so, yet their mechanical operations 
are beyond criticism. 

Homeopaths builded better than they knew. In preparing 
their high potencies, they eliminated the poison contained in 
such drugs as aconitum and belladonna, and left only the in- 
organic cell-salts which supply deficiencies when correctly se- 
lected. But this subject is dealt with in the book, "The Bio- 
chemic System of Medicine," which every student of course 
reads. 

Biochemistry is science, not experimentalism. There is no 
more of mystery and miracle about it than about all natural 
laws. The food and drink taken into the stomach and the air 
breathed into the lungs furnish all the materials of which the 
body is composed. By the juices of the stomach, pancreas and 
liver, the food is dissolved, and the cell-salts are taken up by 
the absorbents and carried to the lungs, where they unite with 
the aerial elements and make blood. 

When we realize that there is as much matter thrown out of 
the body in twenty-four hours as is taken into it, we see that 
flesh is not formed from the food we eat. 

Oil taken into the stomach can not possibly reach the tissue 
as oil, simply because it passes through a metamorphosis from 
the action of the gastric juice, bile and pancreatin. 

The blood supplies the material necessary for forming every 
tissue and fluid in the body, and for carrying forward every 
process in the operation or materialization of the human form. 

An analysis of the blood shows that it contains organic and 
inorganic matter. The organic constituents are sugar, fats and 
albuminous substances. The inorganic constituents are water 
and certain minerals commonly called cell-salts or tissue build- 
ers. Of a living human body water constitutes over seven- 
tenths, and cell-salts about one-twentieth, organic matter the 
remainder. 

The writer was among the first scientists in the world to 
advance the theory (now a demonstrated scientific truth) that 
the organic portion of all vegetable and animal matter, the 
oil, albumen, fibrin, etc., is formed by a combination of aerial 



The Chemistry off Human LiEE 19 

elements which make up what is known by the general term 
atmosphere. Food taken into the system is not changed to 
flesh and bone, but acts as a negative pole, as explained in the 
following extract from one of my lectures: — 

"The commonly-accepted idea that vegetation is a product 
of soil, that it absorbs from the earth the material that builds 
the structure of the plant, and that animal tissue is built up by 
a metamorphosis of this vegetable substance into flesh and 
bone, has been proven erroneous. 

"Chemistry and the spectroscope prove that vegetable and 
animal tissue is precipitated air. 

"It is well known by chemists that all manner of fruits, 
grains, and vegetables are produced directly from the elements 
in the air, and not from the soil. The earth, of course, serves 
as a negative pole, and furnishes the mineral salts of lime, mag- 
nesium, iron, potassium, sodium, and silica, which act as car- 
riers of water, oil, fibrin, sugar, etc., and thus build up the plant. 
But the oil, sugar, albumen, etc., are formed by a precipitation 
of principles in the air, and not from the soil. This is a fact 
abundantly proven. M. Berthelot, a scientist of France, Tesla, 
the Austrian wizard, and our own Edison have long held that 
food could be produced artificially by a synthetic process from 
its elements. Some six or seven extracts, as well as coloring 
material, are now being manufactured in this manner. Madder 
is now made almost exclusively by this process. 

Long ago I advanced the theory that animal tissue is formed 
from the air inhaled, and not from food. The food, of course, 
serves a purpose ; it acts as the negative pole, as does the earth 
to plant and vegetable life, furnishes the inorganic salts, the 
workers that carry on the chemistry of life, and sets free mag- 
netism, heat, and electric forces by disintegration and fermen- 
tation of the organic portions of the food. But air, in passing 
through the various avenues and complex structure of the won- 
derful human organism, changes, combines with the mineral 
salts and solidifies, until it is finally deposited as flesh and bone." 

But in order to transpose air — the universal substance in 
which we "live, move, and have our being" — into flesh, water 
and the twelve salts have a special work to do. Should a de- 



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ficiency occur in one or more of these workers, an abnormal 
condition arises. 

Not until recently were the inorganic cell-salts understood 
and appreciated. Being little in quantity, they were supposed to 
be little in importance. But now it is known that the cell-salts 
are the vital constituents of the body, the workers, the builders, 
that water and organic substances are material used by these 
workmen to carry on the cellular operation in the human organ- 
ism that underlies and forms the basis of all animal or vegetable 
tissue. Should a deficiency occur in one or more of these twelve 
workmen, abnormal conditions arise. These abnormal condi- 
tions are known by the general term disease, and accordingly 
as they manifest in different ways and in different parts of the 
body, they have been designated by various names. But these 
names totally fail to express the real trouble. Every disease 
which afflicts the human race is due to a lack of one or more of 
these inorganic workers. Every pain or unpleasant sensation 
indicates a lack of some constituent of the blood. 

Having learned that disease is not a thing, not an entity, 
animate or inanimate, but a condition due to a lack of some in- 
organic constituent of the blood, it follows naturally that the 
proper method of cure is to supply to the blood that which is 
lacking. 

In the treatment of disease, the use of anything not a con- 
stituent of the blood is unnecessary, and to give poison to a sick 
person is barbarous and inhuman. True, many have survived 
such treatment, but equally many have been hurried to their 
graves. 

Biochemistry would seek to ascertain what is lacking in dis- 
ease, and supply it in just the form needed. 



CELLULAR PATHOLOGY 

ALL diseases that are curable are cured in a natural manner 
through the circulation ; the constituent parts of the human 
organism, which are carried by the blood vessels and transude 
through the walls of these "branches of the tree of life" into the 
surrounding tissue, restore normal conditions when the blood 
contains the proper amount of water, sodium, ferrum, potas- 
sium, calcium, magnesia, and silica. 

Deficiencies in the cell-salts produce pains, fever, spasms, or 
some other cry of distress. These so-called symptoms are 
words, or dispatches, calling for what is needed. And when the 
call is for the- phosphate of potassium to supply nerve cells, 
shall we give morphine? "He asked for bread, and ye gave 
him a stone." 

When the call is for the phosphate of iron, in order that 
more oxygen may be conducted through the organism, and 
thereby increase vitality, shall we give alcohol? "He asked 
for fish and ye gave him a serpent." 

It will be observed that there is nothing miraculous about the 
biochemic procedure — it is simply natural law. 

The constituents of our bodies, planned by Infinite Intelli- 
gence, keep all parts of its wondrous mechanism in harmo- 
nious co-ordination when present in proper magnitude and 
amount. Harmony cannot be obtained when deficiencies exist 
by introducing a poison into the system. 

The symptoms may be changed to those that manifest differ- 
ently, but the patient is not cured. 

Calomel does not cure ; it simply sets up a diarrhoea in place 
of constipation. Opium does not cure; it sets up paralysis of 
nerve centres in place of neuralgia (Greek and Latin for nerve 
pain). 

We do not claim magical curative properties for the bio- 



22 The Chemistry of Human Life 

chemic materia medica. We only point out the law of the chem- 
istry of life. 

Is there any system of teaching or practice before the world 
to-day that can be said to present the law of cure as full- 
rounded and many-sided, clear, explicit, without evasion or 
ambiguity, as does the science of Biochemistry? 

Let the sick bear in mind that there is but one way to be re- 
stored to health, and that is the natural way : through the blood 
by supplying deficiencies \ It will require just as much time to 
cure as nature requires, working in a natural way. The food 
or workers called for must be supplied ; calomel, aconite, bella- 
donna, salicylic acid, opium, etc. (we do not refer to the homeo- 
pathic triturations of these drugs) are not constituent parts of 
blood, are not found in the human organism naturally, and, 
when taken into the system, set up their own vibration or 
action, in place of the condition naturally produced by a de- 
I ficiency in the component parts of the organism, and are worse 
than the disease for which they are given. When a twig is 
broken from a branch, we know a new one will grow again to 
the same size, if water is supplied to the soil and conditions 
favorable to its growth are furnished; we do not expect to 
supply a new growth by legerdemain, or some short cut — say by 
putting an "active poison" about the roots of the tree — or in- 
jecting beneath its bark a nameless lymph wherein sport the 
festive bacilli and all-pervading microbes. 

We realize the branch must be restored in a natural manner 
by the constituent parts of the tree, operating or circulating 
through the physiology of the tree, and thus carrying on the 
process of growth. 



THE VIEWS OF SCIENTISTS 

PROFESSOR VIRCHOW, in his lecture on "Cellular 
Pathology," says (see lecture 14) "the cells of the organ- 
ism are not fed, they feed themselves. The absorption of mat- 
ter into the interior of the cells is an act of the cells them- 
selves." 

Alfred Binet, a noted French scientist, says, in his work, 
"The Psychic Life of Micro-organism"; "The micro-organ- 
isms do not nourish themselves indiscriminately, nor try to feed 
blindly upon every substance that chance may throw in their 
way. The microscopic cellule in some manner knows how to 
choose and distinguish alimentary substances from particles of 
sand." 

So I am led to believe that the cells are intelligent organisms 
and can choose their nourishment. This being the case, how 
foolish, if not criminal, to place only a poisonous agent within 
their reach. 

As the researches of Binet, the French scientist, show that 
micro-organisms — infusoria — select their own food from the 
material at hand, so does the Pomeranian scientist, the great 
Virchow, clearly demonstrate that the cells that build the hu- 
man form divine also select their nourishment from material 
within reach, and that nothing foreign to their constituent parts 
can be forced upon them — except to produce injury or death. 
Professor Virchow's researches demonstrate the fact that ab- 
normal cells are caused by a lack of the chemical constituents 
that are required to produce normal cells. 

The renowned Dr. Schuessler says: "The inorganic sub- 
stances in the blood and tissue are suffiicent to heal all diseases 
that are curable at all. The question whether this or that dis- 
ease is or is not dependent on the existence of germs, fungi, or 
baccilli is of no importance in biochemic treatment. If the 
remedies are used according to the symptoms, the desired end, 

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that of curing disease, will be gained in the shortest way. 
Long-standing chronic diseases, which have been brought about 
by overdosing or use of poisonous drugs, quinine, mercury, 
morphine, alcohol, etc., may be cured by minute doses of cell- 
salts." 

Professor Liebig, the world-wide authority in chemistry, 
says : "It happens that a tissue in disease reaches such a de- 
gree of density, becomes so clogged, that the salt solution of the 
blood cannot enter to feed and nourish ; but, if for therapeutic 
purposes, a solution of salt be so triturated and given so diluted 
that all its molecules are set free, it is presumable that no 
hindrance will be in the way of these molecules to enter the ab- 
normally condensed part of tissue." 

The body is made up of cells. Different kinds of cells build 
up the different tissues of the body. The difference in the cells 
is largely due to the different mineral salts that enter into their 
composition. If we burn the body, or any tissue of it, we obtain 
the ashes. These are the mineral or inorganic constituents of 
the body, the salts of iron, lime, magnesium, etc. They are the 
tissue builders, and both the structure and vitality of the body 
depend upon their proper quantity and distribution in every cell. 

Professor Huxley said : "Those who are conversant with 
the present state of biology will hardly hesitate to admit that 
the conception of life of one of the higher animals as the sum- 
mation of the lives of a cell aggregate, brought into harmonious 
relation and action by a co-ordinative machinery formed by 
some of these cells, constitutes a permanent acquisition to physi- 
ological science. I believe it will, in a short time, become pos- 
sible to introduce into the human organism a molecular sub- 
stance that will by the law of chemical affinity find its way to 
the particular group of cells or nerve plexus that may be in need 
of it." 

We know that the cell-salts, or mineral workers, in the blood 
are infinitesimally sub-divided in the food we eat. Nature 
works everywhere with immense numbers of infinitely small 
atoms, which can only be perceived by our dull organs of sense 
when presented to them in finite masses. The smallest image 
our eye can recognize is produced by billions of waves of light. 



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A granule of salt which we can scarcely taste contains millions 
and millions of groups of atoms which no human eye will ever 
discern. A search for the ultimate atom will surely end in 
complete recognition of the operation of wisdom, or Omnipres- 
ent Life. 

One quart of milk is found by analysis to contain about the 
six-millionth of a grain of iron; a child fed on milk receives 
each time one milligram of iron in a half-pint of milk, which is 
only the fourth part of the above minute fraction of one part 
of a grain of iron. But this infinitesimal amount supplies the 
iron molecules needed to carry a full supply of oxygen to all 
parts of the organism. 

The proportion of fluorine in the human organism is still 
less than that of iron. 

Professor Liebig says : "Hydrochloric acid, diluted with one 
thousand parts of water, readily dissolves the fibrin of meat 
and the gluten- of cereals, and this solvent power is decreased 
when the acid solution is made stronger." One red-blood cor- 
puscle does not exceed the one hundred and twenty-millionth 
of a cubic inch. There are over three millions such cells in one 
droplet of blood, and these cells carry iron and other mineral 
workers. How necessary, then, to administer these salts in 
minute molecular form! 






THE BIOCHEMIC PATHOLOGY OF 
EXUDATIONS, SWELLINGS, ETC. 

IT is very important for the student of Biochemistry to fully 
understand the real cause of exudations, swellings, inflam- 
mation, eruptions and all accumulations of all so-called morbid 
matter which accompany disease. 

Heteroplasm is defined by Virchow as a substance foreign 
to the normal constituent parts of the human organism. It 
must be that the normal constituent parts of the body have 
become abnormal for some reason, as the change occurs in the 
organism of man and not outside. 

The fluids of the body, containing oil, fibrin and other albu- 
minous substances, could not so combine as to render them 
non-functional, or to form vitiated compounds, causing exuda- 
tions, eruptions, etc., if the vitalizers, the workers, called inor- 
ganic cell-salts, were present in proper quantity. There is 
a small amount of muriatic acid in gastric fluids, and a de- 
ficiency of the same causes indigestion and possibly catarrh of 
the stomach, which means exudation of certain organic matter 
from the blood ; but this abnormal state would not exist unless 
there first arises a deficiency in some one or more of the inor- 
ganic or mineral salts. Muriatic acid is formed by the union 
of certain dissimilar substances, which conjoin and form new 
compounds. This is Biochemistry — that is, life chemistry, the 
real definition of the word. 

Any breaking up of the chain of continuity of the cell-salts, 
of course, disturbs this process of forming new organic ma- 
terial to replace that cast off as worn out and useless. 

Let us take a condition called acidity, or an excess of acid. 
It is well known that either acid or alkali alone may be in- 
jurious to man and seriously interfere with the process of life, 
while a proper combination of the same forms natural fluids of 
the body. 



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There is not, properly speaking, an excess of acid, but a 
deficiency in the alkaline cell-salts. 

A deficiency of sodium phosphate causes a breaking up of 
the basis of certain parts of the blood plasma, which causes, or 
allows, the acid to stand alone and thus produce a disturbance. 
Of course, this is due entirely to a lack of the alkaline salts — 
a proper balance of them — and not to an excess of acid. When 
the true cause of eruptions, swellings, exudations, etc., is fully 
understood, the names now used to designate the supposed 
difference will not be used. 

Instead of treating a certain disease (which simply means 
not at ease), the physician will learn the telegraphy of the in- 
tricate, complex, marvelous human machine and know what is 
asked for in the words now, or heretofore, supposed to simply 
be pain or exudations. 



CHEMICAL OPERATION 

A CHILD may touch a button that will start a complex 
machine to operating, and yet not understand the science 
of physics or the mechanism of the machine. 

So many systems of healing may be the means of starting the 
workmen in the system that have become dormant into action. 
Massage, bathing, electricity, magnetic healing, suggestion, ab- 
sent treatments, concentration, affirmation, prayer, all these and 
many more that might be mentioned, can and often do start 
forces that have become dormant because some link in the 
chemical chain of inorganic molecules has been misplaced or 
thrown out of gear, but when these chemicals (mans body is a 
chemical formula, remember) are deficient in the blood, you 
can no more supply them by any of these modes of operation 
than you can cure hunger by them. These methods are all good 
in their time and place to start dormant energies, but none of 
them will supply deficiencies — viz., cure hunger. 

So Biochemistry furnishes the key to all cures made by the 
old or allopathic, the homoeopathic or electic schools, or by 
medical springs or healing through the operation of mind. 

There are some who heal by thought transference, others 
must come in contact with the patient. In either case, I hold 
the process is orderly and within the domain of law. 

This science is in perfect harmony with the Chemistry of 
Life operating in each human organism, and cannot antagonize 
any phase of higher thought. Mind, or mental cures, Christian 
or Divine science, suggestive therapeutics or magnetic healing, 
must all operate according to Divine law (Life Chemistry), or 
not at all. The operation of wisdom has many names, but the 
chemical process is one. 



MAN'S DIVINE ESTATE 
A Prophecy of the Age of Alchemy 

BIOLOGISTS and physiologists have searched long and 
patiently for a solution of the mystery of the differentiation 
of material forms. 

No ordinary test can detect any difference in the ovum of 
fish, reptile, animal, bird, or man. The same mineral salts, 
the same kind of oil, albumen, fibrin, or sugar, or carbon is 
found, not only in the egg or germ of all forms of life but in 
the substance or tissue of the bodies of all the varied expres- 
sions of materiality. 

The answer to this "Riddle of the Sphinx" is found where 
Bio, or Life, Chemistry merges into alchemy, over the door 
of which is written, "It is finished" — "Let there be light." 

Professor Loeb says : "The ultimate source of living matter 
is chemical." To the Biochemist the above is a truism. There 
is no such thing as inert, or dead, matter. All is life. 

The base of all manifestation is mineral. Out of the dust, 
ashes, or minerals of the earth physical man is made. 

The twelve mineral salts are the basis of every visible form, 
animal or vegetable. No two different forms have exactly the 
same combination of the minerals, but all have the same min- 
erals. 

These minerals, inorganic salts, are the twelve gates of 
precious stones described by John in his vision. When the 
Divine Word speaks the mineral atoms, or molecules, of its 
body into a certain formula or combination, a germ or egg y 
which is the basis or nucleus of the form to be manifested, 
materializes. This little plexus of intelligent atoms then com- 
mences to attract to its centre by the law of chemical affinity, 
which is only another way of saying God in action, other atoms 
known as oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, etc., and thus materi- 
alizes them, until the building is completed according to the 

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plan of the architect or designer. Thus the Word, operating 
through chemistry, is the Alpha and Omega. 

There would be no eagle, fish, horse, or man without the 
Word, Divine Wisdom, and there would certainly be no Word, 
if there was no substance to obey the Word, and likewise there 
would be no substance, if there was no law of chemical affinity, 
or action and reaction, whereby the operation of materialization 
and dematerialization may be carried on. 

It will be demonstrated in the near future, that so-called 
nitrogen is mineral in solution, or ultimate potency, which 
explains the reason why nitrogen enriches the soil. 

The Atmospheric Product Company at Niagara Falls, whose 
promoters expect to extract and condense nitrogen from the 
aerial elements by electrical process, are the forerunners of 
machines that will manufacture our food and clothing direct 
from the air, and also produce heat or cold as needed by differ- 
ent rates of vibration of the substance, body of God, every- 
where present. 

Neither light nor heat comes from the sun, for they are not 
entities that can come or go. They are effects or results. The 
sun is surely a great dynamo, or vibrating centre of Divine 
Energy, which by its thought moves the atoms of our earth- 
envelope, and by vibration or motion chemically causes light 
and heat in different degrees, according to its good will and 
pleasure. 

By chemistry, the court of last resort, will man come into his 
divine estate". He will then place the "Poles of Seing," and 
produce vegetable or animal forms at will. 

Thus the prophecy of man's dominion will be fulfilled, for 
he will have attained knowledge which will enable him to manu- 
facture a psychoplasm (if I may be permitted to coin a word), 
from which he can bring forth all manner of vegetable or animal 
life. 

Let man stand upright and splendid, 
Let woman look up from the sod — 

For the days of our bondage are ended, 
And we are at one with God. 



INTUITION, OR THE INFINITE 
VIBRATION 

INTUITION is information direct from the source of all 
knowledge, vibrating the brain cells and nerve centres of the 
human organism — the temple, or instrument, of the living God 
— at different rates, or tones, according to the chemical com- 
bination of physical atoms composing the organism. An alli- 
gator, a horse, a monkey, or a man, being organized each on 
a different key, receives and expresses the infinite word ac- 
cording to its note, molecular arrangement, or chemical for- 
mula. 

Wireless telegraphy is demonstrating the underlying prin- 
ciple of what the world has named intuition. 

Mental, or absent healing, is scientifically explained in the 
explanation of wireless telegraphy. The same substance — air, 
or ether — fills the so-called space in which we exist. We (our 
bodies) are strung on this attenuated substance like spools on 
a string; it extends through us — we are permeated with it as 
water permeates a sponge. 

When the brain cells of the mental healer are acted upon by 
the word or thought of the healer, they vibrate, jar, or oscillate 
at the rate that causes an arrangement of cells that manifests 
or materializes the bodily functions on the plane of health. 
This rate of vibration, started from the sender, will produce the 
same rate, or jar, in the brain cells of any one attuned to the 
note, providing they recognize the operation, for it is only 
through such consciousness that we become a receiver. 

Thus we realize the truth of the statement, "Thy faith hath 
made thee whole." 

The sender and receiver in the Marconi system must be in 
the same key — that is, adjusted to sense the same jar, or vibra- 
tion. When the brain of the healer and patient are in unison, 
through conscious understanding or agreement, cures can al- 

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ways be effected, if the chemical constituents — molecules — are 
present in the organism of the patient, though dormant, nega- 
tive, or out of harmonious co-ordination, by the proper jar, or 
thought vibration, of the healer or sender. 

But, if the blood of the patient is really deficient in some of 
the mineral salts, or cell-salts, the phosphates, sulphates, and 
chlorides of iron, lime, potassium, and other inorganic sub- 
stances which compose the material organism, the cure cannot 
take place unless the jar, or vibration, of health started by the 
sender so oscillates, or jars, the fluids of digestion and assimila- 
tion that these lacking elements are set free from the food and 
water taken by the receiver (patient), and thus supply the de- 
ficiency. It is these cases that baffle mental or divine healing. 

Biochemistry fills the gap, offers the solution of the problem 
by preparing the cell-salts and proceeding directly to the work 
of doing that which is absolutely necessary to be done, namely, 
supplying the necessary chemical molecules. 

The body is a storage battery, and must be supplied with 
the necessary chemicals, or it will not run. When this can be 
done by right thinking, well and good ; but, when a deficiency 
does occur, why not supply it direct by a biochemic procedure ? 
Mental science is an incomplete science without Biochemistry. 



THE SO-CALLED ELEMENTS 

SO far as science has been able to weigh, measure, or in any 
manner cognize them, there seems to be about seventy-two 
elements in nature, viz., in the earth, water, and air, a combina- 
tion of which makes manifest all we see or recognize in the ma- 
terial world. 

We do not print the following as an ultimatum, for certain 
changes in the aerial elements, as well as in the cellular struc- 
ture of the human brain may, and doubtless will, enable man 
to penetrate deeper and deeper into the Holy of Holies of 
Omnipresent Life. 

We do not believe there is any such thing as an element dif- 
ferent from the "universal substance in its last analysis. We 
believe that so-called "elements" are different rates of motion, 
or vibration of one substance. 

Behind all chemical phenomena, 

"Standeth God within the shadow, 
Keeping watch above His own." 

The names and abbreviations of the so-called principles or 
elements are as follows : — 

Aluminum Al Copper Cu 

Antimone (Stribium) . . Sb Didymium Di 

Argon Ar Erbium Er 

Arsenic As Fluorine F 

Barnim Ba Glucinum G 

Bismuth Bi Gold (Aurum) Au 

Baron B Hydrogen H 

Bromine Br Helium Hm 

Cadmium Cd Indium In 

Caesium Cs Iodine I 

Calcium Ca Iridum Ir 

Carbon C Iron (Ferrum) Fe 

Cerium Ce Lanthanum La 

Chlorine CI Lead (Plumbum) PI 

Chromium Cr Lithium Li 

Cobalt Co Magnesium Mg 

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Manganese Mn 

Mercury (Hydrargyrum) .... Hg 

Molybdenum Mo 

Nickel Ni 

Niobium Nf 

Nitrogen N 

Osmium Os 

Oxygen • O 

Palladium Pd 

Phosphorus P 

Platinum Pt 

Potassium ( Kalium) K 

Radium Rm 

Rhodium Ro 

Rubidium Rb 

Selenium Se 

Silicon (Silica) Si 



Silver ( Argentum) Ag 

Sodium (Natrum) Na 

Strontium Sr 

Sulphur S 

Tantalum Ta 

Tellurium Te 

Thallium Ti 

Thorium Th 

Tin (Strannum) Sr 

Titanium Ti 

Tungsten (Wolfram) W 

Uranium U 

Vanadium V 

Yttrium Y 

Zinc Zn 

Zirconium Zr 



Ten or twelve more might be added, but their atomic weight 
and affinities are so uncertain that we have omitted them for 
the present. 



ESOTERIC CHEMISTRY 

IN this strenuous age of reconstruction, while God's creative 
compounds are forming a new race in the morning of a new 
age, all who desire physical regeneration should strive by every 
means within their reach to build new tissue, nerve fluids and 
brain cells, thus literally making "new bottles for the new 
wine." For be it known to all men that the word "wine" as 
used in Scripture, means blood when used in connection with 
man. It also means the sap of trees and juice of vegetables or 
fruit. 

The parable of turning water into wine at the marriage at 
Cana in Galilee is a literal statement of a process taking place 
every heart beat in the human organism. 

Galilee means a circle of water or fluid — the circulatory sys- 
tem. Cana means a dividing place — the lungs. In the Greek, 
"A place of reeds," or cells of lungs that vibrate sound. 

Biochemists have shown that food does not form blood, but 
simply furnishes the mineral base by setting free the inorganic 
or cell-salts contained in all food stuff. The organic part, oil, 
fibrin, albumen, etc., contained in food is burned or digested 
in the stomach and intestinal tract to furnish motive power to 
operate the human machine and draw air into the lungs, thence 
into the arteries, i.e., the air carriers. 

Therefore, it is clearly proven that air (spirit) unites with 
the minerals and forms blood, proving that the oil, albumen, 
etc., found in the blood, is created every breath at the "mar- 
riage in Cana of Galilee." 

Air was called water or the pure sea, viz. : Virgin Mar-y. 
So we see how water is changed into wine — blood — every mo- 
ment. 

In the new age, we will need perfect bodies to correspond 
with the higher vibration, or motion of the new blood, for "old 
bottles (bodies) cannot contain the new wine." 

Another allegorical statement typifying the same truth reads, 

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"And I saw a new Heaven and a new Earth," i.e., new mind 
and new body. 

Biochemistry may well say with Walt Whitman: "To the 
sick lying on their backs I bring help, and to the strong, upright 
man I bring more needed help." To be grouchy, cross, irri- 
table, despondent, or easily discouraged, is prima facie evi- 
dence that the fluids of the stomach, liver and brain are not 
vibrating at the normal rate, the rate that results in equilibrium 
or health. Health cannot be qualified, i.e., poor health or good 
health. There must be either health or dishealth ; ease of dis- 
ease. We do not say poor ease or good ease. We say ease or 
dis-ease, viz., not at ease. 

A sufficient amount of the cell-salts of the body, properly 
combined and taken as food — not simply to cure some ache, 
pain or exudation — forms blood that materializes in heatlhy 
fluids, flesh and bone tissue. 

The microscope increases the rate of motion of the cells of 
the retina and we see things that were occulted to the natural 
rate of the vibration of sight cells. Increase the rate of the 
activity of brain cells by supplying more of the dynamic mole- 
cules of the blood, known as mineral or cell-salts of lime, potash, 
solium, iron, magnesia, silica, and we see mentally, truths that 
we could not sense at lower or natural rates of motion, although 
the lower rate may manifest ordinary health. 

Natural man, or natural things, must be raised from the level 
of nature to super-natural, in order to realize new concepts 
that lie, waiting for recognition, above the solar-plexus, that 
is, above the animal or natural man. 

The postive pole of Being must be "lifted up" from the King- 
dom of Earth, animal desire below the solar-plexus, to the 
pineal gland that connects the cerebellum, the temple of the 
Spiritual Ego, with the optic thalmus, the third eye. 

By this regenerative process millions of dormant cells of the 
brain are resurrected and set in operation, and then man no 
longer "sees through a glass darkly," but with the Eye of 
Spiritual understanding. 

Biochemistry is the sign-board pointing to the open country, 
to hills and green fields of health and the truth that shall set 
the seeking Ego free from poverty and disease. 



THE FALLACY OF THE GERM 
THEORY OF DISEASE 

THE true physician says, with Emerison, "I will proclaim 
what I prove to be true to-day, though it contradict what 
I have advocated all my life." 

Do we try to use reason in figuring out any problem ? Long 
ages of working for self-preservation have taught mankind 
that when a certain sensation is felt at the pit of the stomach 
it is caused by hunger and that, if food is taken, the symptom 
will disappear. 

But the hungry one does not once think of a germ or microbe 
causing that gnawing sensation. He realizes, intuitively, that 
the human laboratory is sending out an S.O.S. to let the owner 
know that it needs fuel for its furnace, and that, given the fuel, 
combustion will at once begin and heat and energy will be fur- 
nished to run the human dynamo. At the same time, in this 
process of generating heat and energy, the mineral particles 
which are contained in the food will be set free, taken up by 
the absorbents and carried into the blood, the river of life, and 
distributed to all parts of the body. 

As this wonderful river flows through, each tiny individual 
cell reaches out and actually selects from the stream, the in- 
organic cell-salt that it needs to re-build that portion of itself 
which has been destroyed in the continuous process of tearing 
down and building up. 

If each cell is furnished with material to replace that which 
is torn down, then there is no interruption of the orderly process 
of nature and conesquently there is perfect equilibrium. 

When we repair a house, or any article of use, we select the 
same kind of material that was employed in its construction. 
Why should not this rule hold good when applied to the "Tem- 
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38 The Chemistry o£ Human Life 

about it, does it not seem unreasonable and absurd to give it 
poisons and drugs of any kind? 

No actual progress has been made in the definite cure of any 
disease. In surgery, however, which is mechanical in its opera- 
tion, marvelous progress has been made. Take such a common 
disease as pneumonia, for instance ; one is never sure whether 
the patient will live, or die. If the symptoms do not cease, it is 
evident that the body has not been supplied with the proper 
material, else it would not be sending out signals, calling' atten- 
tion to itself. 

If the little cells of the body, in their reaching out to grasp 
from the blood that which they need, do not find it, they do not 
take anything. What is the result when a person cannot get 
food ? We do not say he has "caught" hunger — that a certain 
germ has caused it, or that he can give it to another, or that 
another can "catch" it from him. But when the cells cannot 
get what they need, we say that the person has "caught" some 
kind of disease — some microbe has entered the laboratory of 
the human body. Does it seem reasonable? 

What really occurs is this : The cells break down and dis- 
integrate, because there is nothing, or not enough material 
given, to supply or replace the waste. As the functions are 
disturbed, this waste matter is not carried out of the body, but 
remains, clogging and poisoning the system. The little drain 
tiles which carry off the excess moisture and the poisons of 
the body are clogged and the surplus heat and moisture can- 
not escape; then fever, so called, results. If these little vents 
of the human body are not soon restored to their normal func- 
tion, the patient dies. Give a stove too much fuel and close 
all the drafts, and the fire will go out. A person who eats more 
than the body requires, keeps the intestinal tract filled with 
fermenting food (just as a stove or furnace may be filled with 
clinkers), for there is not enough gastric juice to break it up 
and digest it. Auto-intoxication results and the intestinal tract 
is flooded with poison. Thus it is that such a person is always 
among the first to "catch" any so-called disease. 

We give the engines that run our machinery a great deal 
more intelligent care than we give the dynamo that runs the 
physical machinery. A good machinist spends much time over 



The Chemistry of Human Life) 39 

his engine. He uses reason and common sense and knows 
that if his engine is clogged with oil or dirt it will not run easily 
and smoothly and he cannot expect to get maximum power 
from it. Why should physical machinery differ in this respect 
from artificial mechanism ? Instead of using reason and giving 
the physical furnace the right proportion and quantity of fuel — 
what do we do ? We eat, because it tastes good, a greater amount 
than we need, often suffering extreme discomfort. 

When an article of food spoils, or a dead body starts to de- 
compose, we do not say that a germ or microbe caused it — we 
know that it was because of atmospheric conditions ; but we do 
realize that flies and maggots are formed from the decaying 
mass, and, if left alone, will consume it and die. The flies and 
maggots did not come until there was dead (so-called) matter 
present, for that is nature's method of removing it. 

There are many kinds of material in the human body, and 
each is used for a definite purpose. For instance, there is much 
fibrin, which is a constituent of the tissue of the body. This 
needs the inorganic cell-salt, chloride of potassium (Kali Mur), 
to combine with it and make it functional. If the system is 
deficient in this cell-salt, the fibrin is not able to do its work — 
becomes non- functional — and, if not carried off by any of the 
means which Mother Nature employs, it clogs the mechanism. 
Then we have a cough, or pneumonia sets in, or perchance we 
"catch" typhoid. The same thing causes it all, namely, a 
deficiency in chloride of potassium. Microbes are found — yes 
— but they are the product of decaying matter. 

Away off in some secluded mountain home, one of the mem- 
bers of a family is taken with typhoid and dies. None of the 
others have it. If caused by a germ, what prevented the entire 
family from "catching" it? 

An intelligent understanding of the composition and the func- 
tions of the body will enable any one to interpret the signals or 
calls sent out, and immediately supply the material that is lack- 
ing. One should understand that "All things work together for 
good," that the amount of food should be regulated, plenty of 
rest and the right amount of exercise be taken at the right time. 
Then a combination of the twelve cell-salts found in the body 



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should be taken systematically in order to supply the deficiency 
in the human laboratory. 

When the deficiency occurs, the patient, not being at ease, 
imagines that something must be the cause of the so-called pain, 
fever or unrest; and, in this, he is encouraged by the Doctor, 
who coins a Latin or Greek word to give standing and person- 
ality to the myth. The condition of not-at-ease arises because 
the blood, not being perfectly organized blood, does not prop- 
erly feed and nourish the nerves, muscles and other tissues of 
the body, and, then, a call or dispatch is sent to the throne of 
understanding, asking that the lacking principle may be supplied. 

These words, asking for the workmen to build new tissues 
into the human organism have, through the grossest ignorance, 
been given names in Latin or Greek, clothed with the tinsel of 
so-called scientific authority, and the people have been called 
upon to recognize and bow down in fear before the devils thus 
let loose. 

An irreverent writer not long ago said that the romances of 
the present day were written by scientists, and that Rider Hag- 
gard, with "She" and "King Solomon's Mines," was but a 
dabster in comparison. A short time ago the Homeopathic 
Envoy said : "The march of science is preceded by an ever- 
increasing horde of Greek and Latin terms which stupefy the 
brain of the unscientific who seeks to comprehend them." 

Among the latest of these words to carry dismay to the 
learned and unlearned is "phagocyte." Occasionally the editor 
of a daily paper is seen struggling with this foreigner, as though 
he knew all about him, and in late medical journals he may be 
seen stalking across the pages of some of the heavyweights. Of 
course, no one would display his ignorance by asking what sort 
of a thing a "phagocyte" is ; so we will look up his pedigree in 
the lexicons. The word "phagocyte" is derived from the Greek 
"Phagein", to eat, and "cytos", a hole or cavity, and really 
means an eater with capacity — a ravenous eater — but, according 
to the scientific gentleman, a "Phagocyte" is an eater of bacilli. 
Now, no doubt, the grand idea becomes apparent: turn the 
phagocytes loose in the system and let them run out the bacilli, 
as ferrets run rats out of a barn. One learned editor of a great 
daily, in the early days of lymph, suggested that it was a phago- 



The: Chemistry of 1 Human Life: 41 

cyte, and discoursed most learnedly on the vast fields this new 
discovery of science opened up, and speculated as to whether 
each breed of bacilli had its own phagocyte or whether one breed 
of phagocyte could sail in and wipe up the floor with the most 
ferocious bacilli. 

One question, however, has not yet been considered, and we 
respectfully suggest that science turn its light in that direction. 
After the pugnacious phagocyte has cleaned out the bacilli, what 
creature shall we turn loose in our insides to fight the phago- 
cyte? 

For the benefit of those who wish to know what the phago- 
cyte may be called upon to contend with, I will mention some of 
the latest discoveries in the realm of the microbe : Man's liver 
may be infested with the terrible distomum hepaticum, while 
that of mutton suffers from distomum lanceolatum. The rabbit 
whisks about with coccidium oviform in his inwards, while man 
and cow both furnish habitation for the gentle echinococcus 
polymorphus. Man alone seems to have the distinction of en- 
tertaining the aristocratic bothriocephalus latus and that free- 
booter of the highway, ankylostomum duodenale. The sporting 
couple, dochimus tringoncephalus and stenocephalias, seek the 
society of hunting dogs only ; first cousins to these, but rather 
more aristocratic, are the brothers, sclerostoum hypostomum 
and tetracanthum, who ride in horses ; while the diserputable 
family on whom all well-regulated microbes look down, that is, 
the strongylicontortus, fillicolus, strigocus and retortorformis, 
dwell amidships in goats and such like plebeans. But the most 
noted of all is the musical dochmius atenocephalus, the intimate 
of the cat, which, as further research will no doubt reveal, must 
be the microbe of all attempts to reach high C. 

But Virchow's researches completely overthrow the germ or 
microbe theory and clearly prove that disease is caused by a 
lack of some constituent of the blood at the part affected and 
not by germs or bacilli. 

The human system can use its constituent parts only ; the cells 
are not fed — they feed themselves. They reject what they do 
not need. It cannot be forced upon them, except to the detri- 
ment or death of the body. Our vital forces are at once set to 
work to rid the system of anything and everything that does 



42 The Chemistry of Human Life 

not belong to our organism and will not assimilate with blood, 
bone, muscle or other tissues. 

Calomel, quinine, aconite, belladonna, salicylic acid, opium 
and the thousand and one poisons used in the "regular" medical 
practice are not constituent parts of the blood — are not found 
in the human organism, and, when taken into the system, set 
up their own action for the abnormal condition called disease 
and are worse than the disease itself. 

Calomel does not cure ; it simply sets up a diarrhoea in place 
of constipation. Opium does not cure ; it simply causes paraly- 
sis of the nerve centers, in place of neuralgia. Those who take 
poisons and yet recover, do so in spite of both the disease and 
the drugs. The normal condition is restored through the natu- 
ral processes. The so-called medicines have no part in the 
restoration. No improvement can be made on the human 
organism in this respect. The constituent parts of our bodies, 
when perfectly balanced, keep all in harmony. When an abnor- 
mal condition arises, harmony can be restored by restoring the 
balance, but not by introducing a poison into the system. The 
disease may be changed to one that manifests itself in a differ- 
ent manner, but the patient is not cured. The word poison has 
but one definition, that is, an agent which, when taken into the 
stomach or blood, produces either disease or death. Therefore, 
by no possibility can poison cure. 

When the microscope first revealed the fact that there is no 
inert matter — that all so-called matter is life in operation, even 
in the crystal and diamond — the scientists were frightened out 
of their wits. They saw God face to face, named Him 
"microbes" and tried to kill Him with carbolic acid. 

But "He that sitteth in the heavens laughed and had them in 
derision." Carbolic acid is one expression of "Omnipresent 
Life" — microbes are another expression. Add the two and you 
still have the life. 

The true thing alone is orthodox and no length of time can 
sanctify error. Not many years ago, the State Board of Health 
of Louisiana caused cannon to be fired in the streets of New 
Orleans, expecting the concussion to kill the germs of yellow 
fever. Later, the Seers of medicine declared that mosquitos 
were the sole cause of this disease. 



The Chemistry of Human Life 43 

It is claimed by the adherents of the germ theory that so- 
called malarial conditions are caused by germs. 

Dry air cures ague. Cold weather cures ague. Sodium sul- 
phate (natrum sulphuricum, or sulphate of sodium) in 3th 
X-one of the cell-salts of the blood — cures ague. So, then, 
these must all be Royal Germ Killers. No, they supply deficien- 
cies. 

Ague is caused by an excess of water in the blood and dry 
air (cold air is dry air), furnishes an extra amount of oxygen to 
the blood through the lungs, and eliminates the excess of hydro- 
genoid gases or water. 

Sodium sulphate molecules eliminate an excess of water from 
the system. Each molecule has the chemical force to carry two 
molecules of water. No one ever has ague whose blood is prop- 
erly supplied zvith SODIUM SULPHATE, NO MATTER 
HOW MANY GERMS OF MALARIA MAY ASSAIL 
HIM. The Homeopathic News published the following edi- 
torial on the germ theory in 1892 : 

"It is to be hoped that no intelligent homeopathic believes in 
a microbic origin of disease. It may be a matter of interest to 
the physician to study the bacteriological accompaniments of a 
given malady — if the malady has any ; but the idea, that the full- 
est knowledge of the particular bacillus that may be found in 
the body of the subject of a given disease is of practical benefit 
to anybody, is a mistake. 

"For whether we empirically administer drugs, hoping to cure 
disease, or prescribe experimentally for the destruction of a 
bacillus known to us microscopically, is all one. Give us a 
specific for cholera, and we care not whether our specific cures 
by destroying certain bacilli, or by producing blood changes, or 
in any other way. Where there is no guiding law for the cure 
of disease, it is all try, try, try, let the cause within the organism 
be animal, vegetable, or mineral, known or unknown. 

"But we do not believe that, if bacilli peculiar to certain mala- 
dies have been found, they are the cause of the diseased state, 
that they accompany, any more than we believe that the leaves 
on a tree are the cause of the existence of the tree. 

"When a theory of the causation of disease is backed by 
names universally admitted to be as great as those that endorse 



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the germ theory, intelligent men are willing to investigate it. 
This we have done most thoroughly ; and we believe that theory 
to be erroneous from top to bottom, and from first to last. We 
have never found a particle of evidence that bacilli have been 
discovered — in the sense pretended by their 'discoverers.' They 
have undoubtedly been 'faked' to a very great extent, beyond 
doubt intentionally on the part of the chief promulgators of the 
germ theory. The medical profession cannot be blamed, if its 
members very much doubt whether those gentlemen themselves 
believe in their own theory, or in their own 'discoveries.' We 
have learned to know, that disease is not an entity, but a con- 
dition produced by deficiencies, and that germs are a product 
of these conditions and do not cause the conditions." 

The remark is frequently heard that the baby "nursed" its 
sore throat or bad cold from its mother. The statement is not 
only dogmatic and crude, but in the light of Biochemistry, is 
un-scientific. 

The new pathology claims to be able to scientifically demon- 
strate the fact that so-called disease is simply a condition, and 
not an entity that may be transferred from one to another. 
Therefore, the expression, "Caught it from its mother", cannot 
be correct. 

But then, the question arises, "How shall certain facts be ex- 
plained"? No one will venture to deny, that nursing infants 
are very liable to suffer from the same symptoms that manifest 
themselves in their mothers ; and, when we take issue with the 
race belief as to the modus operandi, by which the condition of 
the mother appears in the child, it is meet that we should offer 
our reasons and suggest the true cause of the phenomena. 

In order to make the matter clear, I will offer an illustration : 
Suppose a child, say five or six years of age, should be fed on a 
certain kind of grain, known to be deficient in phosphate of 
lime, and should, as a consequence, suffer from the disease or 
condition known as rickets, rachitis, admitted by all schools to 
be caused by a deficiency of the lime salts of the blood. In 
such case, no one would maintain that the grain gave the child 
the rickets, or that it caught it from the grain, but rather, that 
the grain, being deficient in lime, but not in albumen, furnished 
the blood with a sufficient quantity of organic matter, but not 



The Chemistry of Human Life 45 

enough mineral or inorganic material to build up true bone 
structure. 

Now for the application. Before the mother (or any one 
else) can have a cold or sore throat, there must be a deficiency 
in one or more of the inorganic cell-salts, or tissue builders, of 
the blood. Let us suppose the salt, that has fallen below the 
maximum, to be potassium chloride (kali mur), and, as a con- 
sequence, a certain portion of fibrin, not having workmen — 
molecules of kali mur, — to use, was thrown out by the circu- 
lation and clogged the parotid gland or tonsils, or other glands, 
or caused irirtation to the membrane in nasal passages, or 
larynx, bronchial tubes, or pleura, or clogged the air cells of 
the lungs. In such case, is it not reasonable to suppose the 
mother's milk would be deficient in the cell-salt kali mur, and 
that the child, in accordance with the law laid down above, 
would also suffer from the result of the deficiency, as did the 
mother ? 

As to germs, or bacilli, or microbes, etc., they swarm through- 
out all nature. They are Omnipresent Life in operation. They 
adhere to membranes in unhealthy conditions, but do not affect 
healthy ones. 

Decaying organic matter produces microbes that exist while 
the process of decay goes on, feed upon it and disappear with 
it and return to the elements from which they were material- 
ized. 



DIPHTHERIA 

LET me call your attention to the pathology of diphtheria 
(Greek for membrane), that scourge which baffles the skill 
of the regular practitioner, although his office walls are deco- 
rated with diplomas written in Latin. In venous blood fibrin 
amounts to three in one thousand parts ; when the molecules of 
chloride of potassium fall below the standard in the blood, fibrin 
thickens, causing what is known as pleurisy, pneumonia, ca- 
tarrh, diphtheria, etc. When the circulation fails to throw out 
the thickened fibrin via the glands or mucous membrane, it may 
stop the action of the heart. Embolus is a Latin word, mean- 
ing "little lump" or balls; therefore, to die of embolus, or 
"heart failure", generally means that the heart action was 
stopped by little lumps of fibrin clogging the auricles and ven- 
tricles of the heart. 

In diphtheria we have a striking illustration of the effect of 
deficiencies. Electric changes and disturbances in the atmos- 
phere cause a deficiency in molecules of potassium chloride. 

But some one may ask how atmospheric or electric states and 
changes affect our cell structure, so that conditions called dis- 
ease appear. It is well known that there are subtle influences 
which, although invisible, produce well-defined results. The 
barometer rises or falls while the degree of heat or cold remains 
unchanged. Every baker knows there are influences unseen and 
unfelt by him that prevent his yeast from rising. They are sim- 
ply antagonistic influences. 

When these influences are adverse to man, he suffers just in 
proportion to his inability to meet the opposing forces. The 
forces that injure him first act through the pneumogastric 
nerve, disturb the gastric juice and break up the chain of 
molecules of iron. This diminishes the outer circulation, the 
feet and hands are probably chilled, the pores of the skin close 
and the waste matter, the dead cells that should be cast off 
through these avenues, are turned upon the inner organs. It is 

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the law of conservation of energy that motion is changed to 
heat ; and when the machinery of our being is set more actively 
to work to rid the system of this waste matter, the increased 
circulation which follows produces an excess of heat which is 
called fever. 

In diphtheria, which, as said before, is caused by a deficiency 
in molecules of potassium chloride, these salts with fibrin and 
albuminous substances find their way to the tonsils and thymus 
gland and form a plastic exudation. From the supply con- 
stantly thrown out of circulation the accumulation keeps grow- 
ing until the patient dies of suffocation. There is no specific 
diphtheria germ. 



CHOLERA 

CHOLERA is a Greek term, derived from "chole," meaning 
bile. Cholera is a chemical condition characterized by 
violent emesis, diarrhoea, abdominal pains and cramps. The 
alvine discharge, resembling rice water, with floculent sedi- 
ment, indicates great disturbance in the gray matter of the 
brain and a breaking up of the nerve fluids; also a non-func- 
tional operation of water, which shows that sodium chloride 
molecules have fallen below the standard of balance, and, there- 
fore, fail to properly control and distribute water. The chief 
cause of the acute attack is the breaking away of water from 
blood and serum. 

But the primary cause is an over-supply of water in the blood, 
caused by an atmosphere heavily laden with moisture. Cholera 
does not thrive in temperature below 70 degrees, although 
cases sometimes appear after the temperature has fallen below 
70 degrees, but the blood has become overloaded with water 
during the time the heat was great enough to cause excessive 
humidity. Persons who have not been exposed to humid air, 
do not yield to the disease, although they may come in contact 
with a cholera patient. Therefore, my contention is, that an 
excess of moisture (pure water, H 2 0), is the cause of cholera, 
and that germs, microbes, bacilli, etc., are concomitants of the 
chemical break in the blood and nerve fluids. Pure water may 
thin the fluids of the liver until fatal results are produced. 

The so-called cholera bacillus lives on the heteroplasm caused 
by the molecular break in the chain of the mineral salts in the 
blood. Sodium sulphate regulates the amount of water in the 
blood by its chemical power to eliminate the surplus water. 
But when the air is overcharged with aqueous vapor, sodium 
sulphate molecules often become overworked in their efforts to 
eliminate water, and a deficiency arises, leaving the "water 
logged" system in the condition known as cholera, yellow fever, 
or malaria (bad air), according to the degree of the deficiency 
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coupled with planetary aspects at the particular time. In most 
instances the person with too much water in the blood will 
simply suffer from the condition known as chills and fever, or 
malaria. The chill is a spasm of the muscular nervous and 
vascular system, making a supreme effort to wring out and 
throw off the surplus water in the blood that would have been 
done by the catalyic action of sodium sulphate, had there been a 
reinforcement of that cell-salt to equal the amount of water 
taken into the arteries through the lungs by breathing air over- 
charged with humid vapor. 

The heat (called fever), that follows a chill, is but the result 
of rapid circulation (friction), caused by nature's efforts to 
carry oxygen to all tissues of the body to supply the deficiency 
caused by the spasm or chill. 

If the amount of water in the blood should be excessive, and 
planetary angles favorable, the fluids of the liver and pancreas 
break away. The liver first empties its contents, and the dis- 
charge is colored with bile, but, later on, the fluids are clear, or 
like rice water, which indicates water and nerve fluids. All 
other outlets of the body seem closed except the intestinal tract. 
The pores close and the urinary secretions become dried at their 
source. 

In 1852 Peyton wrote, in a treatise on cholera : "Very re- 
markable results have been found to follow the injection into 
the veins of a dilute solution of saline matter resembling, as 
nearly as possible, the inorganic salts which have been drained 
away." 

During a cholera epidemic in 1877 the famous Dr. Koch went 
to India to search for the cause of that dread disease. A micro- 
scopic examination of the cistern water (it had never been 
examined before) revealed bacilli, (Latin for little sticks), and 
Dr. K. sagely concluded that he had found the cause of cholera. 
The discovery was telegraphed to "earth's remotest bounds", 
and the fatted calf was killed and eaten, while the medical 
world held "high jinks"; but they could not find anything that 
would kill the germs without being quite as fatal to the patient 
as cholera. After colder weather came and the cholera epidemic 
subsided, some doctors who were skeptical about the microbe 
nonsense (quacks, I suppose), went to India to search for the 



50 The Chemistry of Human Life 

dead germs, thinking, of course, that as there were no more 
cholera, there could be no more germs; but, on examining the 
cistern water, they found the bacilli lively and in good health, 
but they refused to bite any more. It seems that these microbes 
only got real hungry during the hot weather. 



PNEUMONIA 

THE following, on pneumonia, was taken from the Bio- 
chemic System of Medicine, published in 1894 : "No ab- 
normal condition with which suffering mortals are afflicted has 
such terrors for the average physician as pneumonia, unless it 
be typhoid or typhus fever. The New York Medical Record, 
of late date, contained the following: 'Pneumonia is attended 
at the present day with an ever-increasing mortality — so high, 
in fact, as to constitute a reproach to medical science.' 

"A prominent physician of Philadelphia wrote as follows : 
'The mortality of pneumonia in Philadelphia has increased, and 
is greater today than it was thirty years ago.' 

" 'The errors of thirty years ago have been intensified. Still 
larger doses of nauseating drugs have been administered, and 
the local treatment has increased in severity.' The microbe the- 
ory, the fallacy of the age, has piled error on error, until the 
wonder is that any one recovers from pneumonia under the 
treatment. The trouble all along has been the failure of the 
medical profession to understand just what causes the condi- 
tion of : 'not at ease,' in pneumonia. 

The medical text-books and dictionaries will tell you "That 
pneumonia, or lung fever, is inflammation of one or more lobes 
of the lungs ;'" but make no attempt to explain what inflamma- 
tion really is or what produces it. These books tell us that cer- 
tain anatomical changes take place; that firm or solid exuda- 
tion is found in pulmonary alveoli, but do not tell of what the 
exudation is composed or how it reached the air cells. We are 
graciously informed that 'there is intense congestive hyper- 
aemia' ; that 'there is red hepatization, in which the lung is 
bulky, heavy and airless, its red tint due to extravastated cor- 
puscles and distended capillaries or gray hepatization, due to 
decolorization of the exudation and pulmonary anaemia or 
colliquation and resolution.' 



52 The Chemistry oe Human Liee 

"The above may be very learned, but the student cannot help 
but wonder what the cause of it all is, and what on earth he 
will do to prevent it. 

"Biochemistry alone explains the cause of the abnormal con- 
dition called pneumonia and offers the cure. 

"Atmospheric electrical changes so operate on the human 
system as to cause a deficiency in iron and other inorganic 
mineral salts of the blood, which lowers the vitality and causes 
the pores to close. The waste matter, the exudation from the 
skin, is then turned inward and seeks an outlet. The fluids of 
the body, water, albumen, etc., serve as carriers for the effete 
matter. 

"Of course the circulation is increased, for two reasons: 
(a) To carry off the decaying organic matter; (b) Because of 
a deficiency in iron the blood is poorly supplied with oxygen, 
which, as is well known, has an affinity for iron ; and the rapid 
motion is nature's effort to make the limited iron supply do the 
work of the maximum amount. 

"If, in getting rid of the waste, nature directs it to the lungs, 
and this causes injury to lung structure, as the decaying, 
vitiated, organic matter surely will, if in sufficient quantity, the 
medical profession have been pleased to name it pneumonia. 
Catarrh, bronchitis, etc., have the same pathology. 

The decaying organic matter, the heteroplasm, deposited in 
connective tissue and membranes during the inflammatory stage, 
of course, must be gotten rid of, but the circulation will attend 
to it, if the tools are furnished to work with. While this work 
is being carried on, there will be disturbances, coughs, etc., but 
the only rational way to do is to supply the blood with the vital 
principles needed, so the work may be done." 

The pathology of all venereal diseases is the same as the 
pathology of any disease. See special article on Syphilis in the 
"Biochemic System of Medicine", page 353. 



LESSON I. 

THE chemical formula and Physiological action of the Cell 
Salts of the human Organism. 

As bone is the foundation of the animal structure, I will com- 
mence with the bone builder. 

Phosphate of Lime — Synonyms: Calcarea Phosphoricum, 
Calcium Phosphate. Formula Ca 3 Po 4 ) 2 . 

Phosphoric acid, dropped in lime water, precipitates this salt 
in crude form. Let the student bear in mind that this lime salt, 
as well as all the others, must be triturated with sugar of milk 
up to at least the third decimal, or potency, in order that the 
molecules may become separated from the mass to the extent 
that they can be taken up by the delicate mucous membrane 
absorbents of the stomach and intestinal tract and thus enter the 
blood vessels. 

As to the best decimal potency to give, to supply deficiencies 
in the mineral salts, there is quite a difference in opinion. 
Many of the homeopathic physicians contend for higher poten- 
cies, from sixth up to two hundredths, while biochemists gen- 
erally use the third and sixth. 

Bone tissue consists of about 57 per cent lime phosphate. 
The lime salt has chemical affinity for albumen. While there is 
a certain degree of affinity between each of the cell-salts and 
albumen — albumen being the base of all organic matter — the 
operation of calcarea phosphate with albumen is greatest. The 
salt chemically unites with albumen, carries it and uses it as 
cement to build bone tissues. Bone also contains carbonate of 
soda, magnesium phosphate and sodium chloride, but lime phos- 
phate is the chief builder of bone tissue, and it follows, as a 
logical sequence, that it is the principal salt deficient in all so- 
called diseases of bone structure. 

The gelatine found in bone tissue is formed by the union of 
albumen, oil, carbon, lime and phosphate in certain proportion. 
Of course, there is a small amount of other principles in bone, 

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54 Ths Chemistry of Human Li££ 

such as magnesia, sodium chloride, silicia, etc. When the mole- 
cules of lime phosphate fall below the normal in amount and 
thus fail to keep up the supply of bone material, some symptoms 
of bone disease manifest. Again, a lack in the proper amount 
of this builder, in some instances, causes an anemic condition, 
for bone material (lime and albumen) is the foundation of 
bodily structure. 

Under certain conditions, dependent on deficiencies in other 
cell-salts, a break in the molecular chain of lime phosphate will 
cause an outflow of albumen through the kidneys. Why should 
the escape of albumen via the kidneys be named Bright's Dis- 
ease ? It seems that the fact of the loss of albumen in this man- 
ner was first discovered in the case of a hospital patient named 
Bright, and although many Browns, Joneses and Smiths die in a 
regular and orthodox manner from the same cause that cut off 
the immortal Bright, the medical profession still dignify the 
disease by the original label. 

The very same albumen that causes "Bright's Disease," if 
thrown out through the nasal passage, is called catarrh (from 
the Greek: To drop down). 

If the albumen reaches the skin, by disintegration, or fer- 
mentation, it causes pimples, eruptions, eczema, etc. If any one 
derives pleasure from these names, well and good, let them use 
them, but chemistry knows nothing whatever about them. 

A great deficiency in lime phosphate may cause albumen to 
accumulate in some gland and there disintegrate and flow out in 
pus, or heteroplasm, which is called scrofula by the old school 
physicians. Scrofula is derived from scrofula, Latin for sow. 
Maybe the ancients believed the pork eaters were more liable 
to the disease than were the Jews. 

The lime molecules are found in the fluids of digestion and 
assimilation, and when there is a lack of the proper amount of 
these workers, the digestive juices become negative, lose their 
proper rate of motion, or catalyc action, ferment and thus pro- 
duce gas, acid condition, etc. When lime phosphate and sodium 
phosphate, the alkaline salts, are deficient, acids, together with 
albuminous substance, may settle in the joints and thus render 
synovial fluids non- functional; thereby, causing pain, stiffness 
and swelling of the joints. Just why this chemical fact must 



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needs have the word rheumatism tacked to it does not ap- 
pear. The word rheumatism is derived from rheum — to flow 
out. 

Biochemistry does not deal with names and effects; it deals 
with causes, the chemistry of life and the law of supplying 
deficiencies. 

Medical writers of late have adopted the term albuminuria 
in place of Bright's Disease, which very well describes the symp- 
tom or effect, but does not hint at the cause of the symptom. 

Biochemistry seeks to learn the particular food called for by 
pains, exudations, swelling, inflammations, etc. Nature never 
calls for anything that is not a constituent part of the organism 
demanding supply. 

Blood is the base of the physical life of man, and as a man's 
blood is, so is his health. 

A word about potencies: We are told by the analytical 
chemists, that a quart of milk contains only the six-millionth 
part of a grain of iron. An infant fed on milk receives one 
milligram of iron in a half pint of milk, which is only the fourth 
part of the above minute fraction of one part of a grain of iron. 
It would seem from the above that four milligrams of iron 
daily is sufficient to feed all the cells that are known to contain 
and consequently require iron. This being the case, it surely 
can require but an infinitesimal amount of iron to supply the 
links in a broken molecular chain. 

With these demonstrated facts before us, high potencies are 
no longer vague theories and the butt of jokes. On the con- 
trary, they are man's best endeavor to imitate Nature's pro- 
cesses. 



LESSON II. 

Sulphate of Lime — Synonyms: Calcium Sulphate, Calcarea 
Sulphate, Calci Sulphos, Gypsum, Plaster of Paris. 

Formula — CaSo 4 . 

This salt can be obtained by precipitating a solution of cal- 
cium chloride of lime with dilute sulphuric acid. 

Sulphate of lime should never be used below the 6th decimal 
trituration. 

Tissue is composed of living cells. By giving a tissue builder 
the deficient mineral salt in such a dose, fineness and amount as 
can be assimilated by the growing cells, the most wonderful and 
speedy restoration to healthy functions is brought about in 
every case of curable disease. We know that these minerals 
are infinitesimally subdivided in the different kinds of food we 
take, thus rendering them capable of being assimilated by the 
cells. The cells of each tissue-group receive their own special 
and peculiar cell-salt. 

The sulphate of lime is the chief builder of epithelial tissue, 
or to be more exact, the chief sustainer for the chloride of 
potassium, as will be shown in Lesson V, is the worker in fibrine 
and has much to do in the formation of epithelium. 

Lime sulphate furnishes the cohesive, or plaster, substance to 
sustain the integrity of tissue. The chief symptom of disease, 
indicating a deficiency in the lime salt, is suppuration or the dis- 
charge of pus, which is an exudation formed by the breaking 
down, disintergration and fermentation of epithelial cells. Lime 
phosphate, by its union with albuminoids, assists chloride of 
potassium to form epithelial tissue, or, at least, to hold it intact 
by its cohesive quality. 

The third stage of catarrh, bronchitis, lung disease, boils, 

carbuncles, ulcers, abscesses or exudations from any part of the 

body, indicates a lack of this tissue-builder. Lime sulphate, 

not only sustains epithelial tissue, but, when administered in 

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case of suppuration, it cleans out the heteroplasm from the 
interstices of tissue by causing the infiltrated parts to discharge 
their contents readily, which prevents slow decay and injury to 
surrounding healthy cells. 

The action of lime sulphate is opposite to the work of silica 
(see Lesson XII), which hastens the process of suppuration in 
a natural manner, while the lime closes up a process that has 
continued too long. Thus are we made to realize the marvelous 
intelligence manifested in life's procession in the organism of 
man. 

Chemical affinity is but a synonym of infinite intelligence in 
operation in the functions of man. 



A 



LESSON III. 



Fluoride of Lime — Synonyms : Calcaria Flurica, Calcium 
Fluoride. 

Chemical Formula — Ca F 2 . 

This salt is formed by the union of lime and fluorine. 

The inorganic salts are the workers, controlled and directed 
by Infinite Intelligence, which perform the ceaseless miracle of 
creation or formation. 

It is quite as important for a student of Biochemistry to un- 
derstand the process by which certain cell-salts operate to sup- 
ply a deficiency as it is to know for what a particular symptom 
calls. 

Elastic fibre, the chief organic substance in rubber, is formed 
by a chemical union of the fluoride of lime with albumen, oil, 
etc. Therefore, we find this salt dominant in the elastic fibre 
of the body, in the enamel of teeth and connective tissue. 

A lack of this salt in proper amount causes a relaxed condi- 
tion of muscular tissue, falling of the womb and varicose veins. 
Sometimes there is a non-functional combination of this salt 
with oil and albumen which forms a solid deposit, causing 
swellings of stony hardness ; it is a sort of incomplete fibre with 
other lime salts and vitiated fluids of the body. 

There is one particular symptom that is worthy of note in 
connection with the pathology of this salt. When a deficiency 
exists in these makers of elastic fibre in the connective tissue 
between cerebellum and cerebrum, the lower and upper brain, 
it causes groundless fears of financial ruin. It seems that the 
relaxed condition of connective tissue, causing a sagging of the 
structure of cerebellum, thereby breaks the flow of the elec- 
tric or magnetic currents from the cerebrum. 

The student will now see that it is exceedingly easy to diag- 
nose disease from the viewpoint of Biochemic Pathology. No 
guesswork here. Go to twenty or one hundred Biochemic physi- 

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cians and give the same symptoms to each, and you will get the 
same prescriptions in every case. 

It does not matter under what name of disease a disturbance 
in elastic fibre appears, a study of the chemistry of life has 
made clear the fact that a break in the molecular chain of lime 
fluoride salt is always the cause of the phenomenon. 

The proportion of fluorine in the human organism is less than 
that of iron. From analytical facts it is found that fluorine in 
milk is only present in decimilligrams, and yet we are con- 
fronted by the fact that this infinitesimal amount is sufficient 
to sustain all the elastic fibre of muscular tissue, enamel of 
teeth and connective tissue. 

Professor Leibig, in his chemical letters, accentuates the im- 
portance of high potencies or dilutions, as follows : 

"At the temperature of the hydrochloric acid, diluted with 
one-thousandth part of water, readily dissolves the fibrine of 
meat and the gluten of cereals, and this solvent power is de- 
creased, not increased, when the acid solution is made stronger." 

Why should we search Latin and Greek lexicons to find a 
name for the result of a deficiency in some of the mineral con- 
stituents of blood. If we find a briar in our flesh, we say so in 
the plainest speech ; we do not say, "I have got the briatitis or 
sprintralgia." 

When we know that a deficiency in the cell-salts of the blood 
causes the symptoms which medical ignorance dignified and per- 
sonified with names of which nobody knows the meaning, we 
will know how to scientifically heal by the unalterable law of the 
chemistry of life. When we learn the cause of disease, then 
and not before, will we prevent disease. 

Professor Valentin, the well known physiologist, says: 
"Nature works everywhere with an infinite number of small 
magnitudes, which can be preceived by our relatively obtuse 
organs of sense only when in masses. The smallest picture 
which our eyes preceive proceeds from millions of waves of 
light. A granule of salt that we are hardly able to taste con- 
tains myriads of groups of atoms which no sentient eye will 
ever view." 



LESSON IV. 

Phosphate of Iron. 

Synonyms — Ferrum phosphate, Ferri Phosphas. 

Formula— Fe 3 (P 4 ) 2 . 

Phosphate of iron may be prepared by mixing sodium phos- 
phate with sulphate of iron. The salt precipitated by this union 
is filtered, washed, dried and rubbed to a powder. 

The iron phosphate should not be used below the sixth (deci- 
mal trituration), as large doses of iron, as in tinctures, have a 
bad effect on the mucous lining of the stomach, injure the teeth 
and utterly fail to supply iron to the blood where it is needed to 
carry oxygen, the life giver. 

One red blood corpuscle does not exceed the one hundred 
and twenty millionth of a cubic inch. There are more than 
three million such cells in one drop of blood, and these cells 
carry the iron in the blood. How necessary, then, to administer 
the salts of iron to hungry cells in the most minute molecular 
form. 

Each one of the twelve inorganic salts has its own sphere of 
function and curative action. Thus we find the phosphate of 
iron molecularly deficient in all fevers and inflammatory symp- 
toms. 

Health depends on a proper amount of iron phosphate in the 
blood, for the molecules of this salt have chemical affinity for 
oxygen and carry it to all parts of the organism. When these 
oxygen carriers are deficient, the circulation is increased in 
order to conduct a sufficient amount of oxygen to the extremi- 
ties with the diminished quantity of iron, exactly as seven men 
must move faster to do the work of ten. This increased rate of 
motion of the blood is changed to heat, caused by friction, other- 
wise known as the "conservation of energy." 

This heat, or increase in the temperature of blood, has been 
named fever, from the Latin word fevre, meaning "To boil 
out." 
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The writer fails to see any relevancy between the word fever 
and a deficiency in iron phosphate molecules in the blood. From 
Hippocrates to Koch you will not find a true definition of fever 
outside of the Biochemic theory. 

It is not simply the heat that causes distress in a fever patient, 
but it is the lack of oxygen in the blood due to a deficiency in 
iron, the carrier of oxygen. 

A molecular break in the links of the chain of iron disturbs 
the continuity of other salts and thus causes more deficiencies. 
The chloride of potassium (see Lesson V), is usually the first 
salt called for after the disturbance in iron. 

These mighty workers, iron and oxygen, cause all the blood 
in the body to pass through the heart every three minutes. The 
lungs contain about one gallon of air at their usual degree of 
inflation. We breathe, on an average, 1200 breaths per hour; 
inhale 600 gallons of air per hour and 24,000 gallons daily ; and 
iron and oxygen are the wizards that perform the miracle. 
When a deficiency in iron occurs, nature — chemical affinity — 
draws the blood inward from the surface of the body, in order 
to conserve this life force so that the vital organs, heart, stom- 
ach, liver, lungs and brain, may continue to function. But the 
poor surface circulation allows the pores to close, and thus the 
waste matter that should escape by this route is turned upon the 
inner organs, causing exudations, catarrh, pneumonia, pleurisy, 
etc. But these names are of no consequence. The student will 
clearly see that iron phosphate is indicated by certain symptoms 
in whatever part of the organism they may appear. Iron mole- 
cules give toughness and strength to the walls of veins and 
arteries and the minute blood vessels called capillaries (hair- 
like) and are, therefore, the remedy for hemorrhages. 

A child may touch a button that will start a complex machine 
operating, and yet not understand the science of physics or the 
mechanism of the machine. So many systems of healing may 
be the means of starting into action the workmen that may have 
become dormant. But when the workmen are deficient in the 
organism, man's body is a chemical formula in operation, it 
would seem to be the sensible thing to do to furnish the needed 
chemicals. 



62 The Chemistry of Human Life 

There is but one law of chemical operation in vegetable or 
animal life. When a man understands and co-operates with 
that operation, he will call into being whatsoever he will; his 
organism will show forth the glory of omnipresent spirit and its 
"fearful and wonder ful" mechanism will be the crowning glory 
of earth. 



LESSON V. 

The Chloride of Potash, or Potassium. 

Synonyms — Potassium chloride, Kali Muriaticum, Kali 
Chloratum, Kali Chloridum, Potassi Chloridum. 

Formula— K CI. 

This salt must not be confused with the chlorate of potash, a 
poison, chemical formula K.CL0 3 . 

Chloride of potash may be obtained by neutralizing pure 
aqueous hydrochloric acid with pure potassium carbonate or 
hydrate. 

The cell-salt kali-muriaticum (Potassium chloride) is the 
mineral worker of the blood that forms fibrin and properly dif- 
fuses it through the tissues of the body. 

Kali mur molecules are the principal agents used in the chem- 
istry of life to build fibrin into the human organism. The skin 
that covers the face contains the lines and angles that give 
expression and thus differentiate one person from another. 

In venous blood fibrin amounts to three in one thousand 
parts ; when the molecules of Kali mur fall below the standard 
in the blood, fibrin thickens, causing what is known as pleurisy, 
pneumonia, catarrh, diphtheria, etc. When the circulation fails 
to throw out the thickened fibrin via the glands or mucous 
membrane, it may stop the action of the heart. Embolus is a 
Latin word, meaning little lump, or balls ; therefore, to die of 
embolus, or "heart failure" generally means that the heart's 
action was stopped by little lumps of fibrin clogging the auricles 
and ventricles of the heart. 

When the blood contains the proper amount of kali mur, 
fibrin is functional and the symptoms referred to above do not 
manifest. 

Biochemistry has discovered the fact that the cause of em- 
bolus, diphtheria, fibroid tumors and fibrinus exudations are 
not the result of an over-supply of fibrin itself. These symp- 
toms are due to a deficiency in the potash molecules that work 
with fibrin, diffuse it throughout the organism and build it into 
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LESSON VI. 

The Phosphate of Potash. 

Synonyms — Potassium Phosphate, Kali Phosphoricum, 
Potassii Phosphas. 

Formula — K 3 P0 4 . 

It may be prepared by mixing aqueous phosphoric acid with 
a sufficient quantity of potash, hydrate or carbonate, until the 
reaction is slightly alkaline and evaporating. Triturate to 3d 
or 6th X. 

This salt is the great builder of the postive brain cells. Kali 
phos. unites with albumen and by some subtle alchemy trans- 
mutes it and forms gray brain matter. 

When the chemical possibilities of this brain builder are fully 
understood, insane asylums will go out of fashion. 

Nervous disorders of all kinds, sleeplessness, paresis, paraly- 
sis, irritability, despondency, pessimism, making mountains out 
of mole hills, crossing broken bridges that do not exist, and bor- 
rowing trouble and paying compound interest on the note — all 
these and many more abnormal conditions that make life a bur- 
den are caused by a break in the molecular chain of this nerve 
and brain builder. 

Man has been deficient in understanding because his brain 
receiver did not vibrate to certain subtle influences ; the dynamic 
cells in gray matter of nerves were not finely attuned and did 
not respond — hence, sin, or falling short of understanding. 

From the teachings of the Chemistry of Life we find that the 
basis of brain or nerve fluid is a certain mineral salt known as 
potassium phosphate, or Kali Phos. Kali phosphate is the 
greatest healing agent known to man, because it is the chemical 
base of material expression and understanding. 

Anything that prevents the formation of new cells as fast 
as old cells decay or die disturbs the equilibrium and some pain 
or other symptom indicates that all is not right. This phenome- 
non is simply a telegraphic dispatch sent along the nerves to the 

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brain to inform the Ego, the Throne of Understanding, that a 
deficiency exists — that the material necessary to keep up the 
processes of life is not sufficiently supplied at a certain place. 

And why is it not supplied? Health is that condition of the 
system where a certain proper degree of heat is maintained, 
where there is a proper blending of positive and negative elec- 
trical influences, and, where every tissue of the body is properly 
supplied with the right amount of blood, containing all of the 
elements requisite for building the new cells. This condition 
can be secured or maintained only by a proper amount of suit- 
able physical exercise, a proper amount of food of a right kind, 
taken at reasonable intervals, and a judicious adaptation of the 
clothing to the temperature and occupation. 

Anything which breaks up this balance injures, just according 
to the degree of the adverse influence. If over-eating, the 
alimentary canal becomes clogged with undigested food, the 
nutrition, which should be set free to transude through the walls 
of the intestines to be taken up by the absorbents and carried 
into the circulation, remains in the fibre of the food and passes 
out of the body, and, of course, a deficiency at once exists in the 
blood. 

Any disturbance in the molecular motion of these cell-salts in 
living tissues constitutes disease. This disturbance can be recti- 
fied, and the equilibrium re-established by administering a small 
dose of the same mineral salts in molecular form. 

The Biochemic System of Medicine is founded on physiology, 
anatomy, cellular pathology and chemistry, as set forth by 
Schuessler, Huxley, Tyndall, Virchow, Liebig, Valentin, Goul- 
lon, Moleschott and Walker, of Europe, and many noted scien- 
tists of our own land. Professor Moleschott, of the University 
of Rome, says in his work, The Circulation of Life: "The 
structure and vital power of the organs are conditional upon the 
necessary quantity of the inorganic salts of the blood." 

Dr. Schuessler says that these words awakened in him the 
idea of employing for healing purposes the inorganic salts alone. ^ 
Schuessler says in his Therapeutics : "My sytem or method of 
procedure is direct Biochemistry, because I use only tissue cell- 
salts, substances which are homogeneous to those contained in 
the diseased tissue. These salts, used properly, in a proper po- 
tency, cure all curable disease." 



LESSON VII 



V 



Sulphate of Potash. 

Synonyms — Potassium Sulphate, Kali Sulphos, Potassae 
Sulphos, Kali Sulphate. 

Formula — K 2 S0 4 . 

The microscope reveals the fact that, when the body is in 
health, little jets of steam are constantly escaping from the 
seven million pores of the skin. The human body is a furnace 
and steam engine. The stomach and bowels burn food by chem- 
ical operation as truly as the furnace of a locomotive consumes 
by combustion. In the case of the locomotive the burning of 
coal furnishes force which vibrates water and causes an expan- 
sion (rate of motion) that we name steam. 

The average area of skin is estimated to be about 2000 square 
inches. The atmospheric pressure, being fourteen pounds to 
the square inch, a person of medium size is subject to a pressure 
of 40,000 pounds. 

Each square inch of skin contains 3500 sweat tubes, or per- 
spiratory pores (each of which may be likened to a little drain 
tile) one-fourth of an inch in length, making an aggregate 
length of the entire surface of the body of 201,166 feet, or a title 
for draining the body nearly forty miles in length. 

Let me repeat, for it is very important, the stomach is the 
furnace of man's body, and, by the process of digestion, burns 
up food and furnishes force to run the human engine, and thus 
enable it to inhale air, the material for blood, as water is the 
material for steam. In the manufacture of blood, through the 
complex operation of air passing through lung-cells, arteries, 
etc., a certain amount of water is changed to steam, a portion of 
which must escape through the safety valves provided by Divine 
Intelligence for that purpose. Sometimes the pores become 
clogged, and prevent the steam from escaping; then the vibra- 
tion of the body changes and the person is sick. In many cases 

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a disturbance in oil is the cause of the trouble. Potassium sul- 
phate has an affinity for oil ; it is the maker and distributor of 
oil. When this salt falls below the standard in quantity, in the 
human organism, oil becomes non- functional — too thick, and 
thus clogs the pores. 

And does it not seem strange that medical science, that boasts 
of such great progress, can invent no better term than "bad 
color" for these chemical results ? 

Kali Sulph. is found in considerable quantities- in scalp and 
hair. When this salt falls below the standard, dandruff or erup- 
tions, secreting yellowish, thin, oily matter of falling out of hair, 
is the result. 

Kali Sulph. is a wonderful salt, and its operation in the divine 
laboratory of man's body, where it manufactures oil, is the 
miracle of the chemistry of life. 

Oil is made by the union of the sulphate of potassium (Pot- 
ash) with albuminoids and aerial elements. 

A deficiency of sulphate of potash in the molecules is the 
cause of oily, slimy, yellowish exudations from any orifice of 
the body, or from any glandular swellings, abscesses, cancers, 
etc. 



LESSON VIII. 

Phosphate of Magnesia. 

Synonyms — Magnesium Phosphorica. 

Formula — Mg 3 P0 4 2 

This cell-salt may be made by mixing Phosphate of Soda with 
Sulphate of Magnesia. This salt is found chiefly in the white 
fibres of nerves and muscles. The tissues of nerves and muscles 
are composed of many very fine threads or strands of different 
colors, each acting as a special telegraph wire, each one having 
a certain conductile power or quality, i. e., special chemical affin- 
ity — for certain organic substances, oil or albumen, through and 
by which the organism is materialized and the process or opera- 
tions of life are carried on. The imagination might easily con- 
ceive the idea that these delicate infinitesimal fibres are strings 
of the Human Harp, and that molecular minerals are the fin- 
gers of infinite Energy, striking notes of some Divine Anthem. 

The white fibres of nerves and muscles need the dynamic 
action of Magnesia Phosphate, especially to keep them in proper 
tune, or function, for, by its chemical action on albumen, the 
special fluid for white nerve or muscle fibre is formed. When 
the supply of this salt falls below the standard, cramps, sharp 
shooting pains, or some spasmodic condition, prevails. Such 
symphoms are simply calls of nature for more magnesia. 

The human body is composed of perfect principles, gases, 
minerals, molecules or atoms; but these builders of flesh and 
bone are not always properly adjusted. 

The planks or bricks used in building houses may be endlessly 
diversified in arrangement and yet be perfect material. There- 
fore, we must conclude that symptoms of disease are dispatches 
sent to the brain — the throne of understanding — calling for the 
worker, the builder, needed to carry on Life's work in flesh. 
Cases of Chorea (St. Vitus' dance) are cured by the proper 
use of magnesia phosphate. This salt is the great remedy for 

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nearly all heart troubles, except embolus. (See Kali Mur., 
Lesson V.) 

The white fibres in the delicate strands that compose the tis- 
sue of nerves are controlled by the molecules of magnesia; 
when these workers are deficient in amount, these live wires 
contract or cramp up in knots, of course, infinitely small, the 
effect of which is a sharp shooting pain, as in so-called neural- 
gia, or sciatica. The word neuralgia is from (a) Latin for 
nerves (b) Greek for pain, and therefore simply means nerve 
pain. English expresses the effect quite as well as other lan- 
guages. But the idea generally prevails that neuralgia means 
a thing unknown and undefinable that causes the pain, and that 
the name of this unknown thing is neuralgia. 

The pain is simply a dispatch, or words, asking for magnesia 
phosphate. 

A deficiency of this salt in the muscular and nerve tissue of 
the walls of the stomach causes contraction, cramps, which 
reduces the cavity of the stomach. In order to meet this condi- 
tion and prevent a collapse, such as is formed by natural chemi- 
cal process from material at hand and by expansion, magnesium 
phosphate produces a counter-force that wards off more serious 
results. Magnesium phosphate relieves such conditions imme- 
diately, thus demonstrating the theory that to supply the defi- 
cient tissue-builder is the natural method of cure. The phos- 
phate of lime often supplements magnesia. (See page 95, "The 
Biochemic System of Medicine.") 

This wonderful salt is the true antispasmodic remedy. It has 
cured cases of chorea, or St. Vitus' dance, in from two to four 
weeks. For all heart troubles caused by distension of the car- 
diac portion of the stomach, thus interfering with the action of 
the heart, it is the sovereign remedy. 

Dr. Baericke, one of the leading homeopathic physicians of 
the Pacific Coast, says : "Magnesia phosphate is a magnificent 
remedy in all spasmodic diseases." 

It is plainly evident that the wonderful fluids of the human 
body are manufactured in the chemical laboratory of the organ- 
ism. The particles of magnesia evidently contain within them- 
selves the power and potency to create the white fibre nerve 
fluid by using albuminous substances as a basis, and then calling 



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to its aid the spirit of life, oxygen. Each one of the inorganic 
salts knows how to make some fluid or tissue of the human 
machine. "And the tree bore twelve manner of fruits and its 
leaves were for the healing of the nations." 

Like the phosphate of potash (see Lesson VI), magnesia 
phosphate is a nerve and brain salt, and, when we consider the 
wonders of the brain and its marvelous mechanism, we must 
recognize the great importance of the wizard workmen which 
labor for three score and ten years without an instant rest. 



LESSON IX. 

Sodium Chloride. 

Synonyms — Natrum muriaticum, Sodii Chloridium, Chloru- 
retum of Sodicum, Common table salt. 

Formula— Na CI. 

A combination of sodium and chlorine forms the mineral 
known as common salt. This mineral absorbs water. The cir- 
culation or distribution of water in the human organism is due 
to the chemical action of the molecules of sodium chloride. 

This inorganic cell-salt is the bearer and distributer of water. 

Sodium chloride must be triturated up to the 3d or 6th 
biochemic potency before using as an agent to supply deficien- 
cies in the water carrier molecules arising from a lack of this 
salt. 

Water constitutes over 70 per cent of the human body, there- 
fore, the carriers of water must be in like proportion. There is 
more sodium chloride in the ashes of a cremated body than any 
of the 12 mineral salts, except the phosphate of lime, which 
composes 57 per cent of bone structure. 

Through its affinity for water, this salt assists in carrying on 
the process of life in the human organism as well as in all vege- 
table tissue. 

When there is a deficiency in the molecules of the water 
bearer, salt, the molecular continuity of water is broken, and, 
as a result, too much water will appear at a certain point and 
corresponding dryness or lack of water at other places. Exam- 
ple: Watery discharge from nasal passages and constitpation 
of the bowels. 

Sunstroke and delirium tremens are caused by a break in the 
supply of this salt, which causes water to press or crowd the 
membranes of the cerebellum (lower brain), and thus prevent 
the magnetic vibrations from the cerebrum (upper brain) from 
passing to the solar plexus, or central brain. 

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Crude soda cannot be taken up by mucous membrane absorb- 
ents and carried into the circulation. The sodium molecules 
found in the blood have been received from vegetable tissue 
which drew these salts from the soil in high potency. The min- 
eral, or cell-salts, can also be prepared and are prepared in 
biochemic or homeopathic potency as the trituration of Nature's 
laboratory in the physiology of plant growth, and then, thor- 
oughly mixed with sugar of milk and pressed into tablets ready 
to be taken internally, supply deficiencies in the human organ- 
ism. A lack of the proper amount of these basic mineral salts, 
twelve in number, is the cause of all so-called disease. 

Common table salt does not enter the blood, being too coarse 
to enter the delicate tubes of mucous membrane absorbent, but 
this salt does distribtue water along the intestinal tract. 

Professor Leibig says in his Chemical Letters, that muriatic 
acid, when diluted a thousand fold with water, dissolves, with 
ease, at the temperature of the body, fibrin and gluten, and this 
solvent power does not increase, but diminishes, if the propor- 
tion of acid in the dilution be increased. 

Air contains 78 per cent of nitrogen gas, believed by scien- 
tists to be mineral in ultimate potency. Minerals are formed by 
the precipitation of nitrogen gas. Dififerentation is attained by 
the proportion of oxygen and aqueous vapor (hydrogen) that 
unites with nitrogen. 

A deficiency in sodium chloride causes the water in the blood 
serum to become inert and non-functional. By its affinity for 
water, sodium chloride assists in the biological operation in 
blood and tissue. 

As will be seen in Lesson XI, sodium sulphate eliminates an 
excess of water in the blood and thus regulates the supply; 
while sodium chloride properly distributes water in the physiol- 
ogy of animal or vegetable forms. 



LESSON X. 

Phosphate of Soda. 

Synonyms — Natrum phosphate, Sodium phosphate, Natri 
Phosphate, Phosphos Natricus, Sodae Phosphate. 

Formula— Na 2 HP0 4 ; 12 H 2 ; Na 3 P0 4 X 12 H 2 0. 

This alkaline cell-salt is made from bone ash or by neutraliz- 
ing orthophosphoric acid with carbonate of sodium. 

Sodium, or natrum, phosphate holds the balance between 
acids and normal fluids of the human body. 

Acid is organic and can be chemically split into two or more 
elements, thus destroying the formula that makes the chemical 
rate of motion called acid. 

Acid conditions are not due to an excess of acid in the blood, 
bile or gastric fluids. Supply the alkaline salt sodium phos- 
phate, and acid will chemically change to normal fluids. 

A certain amount of acid is necessary, and always present in 
the blood, nerve, stomach and liver fluids. The apparent excess 
of acid is nearly always due to a deficiency in the alkaline, salt. 

Acid, in alchemical lore, is represented as Satan, Saturn, 
while sodium phosphate symbolizes Christ, Venus. An absence 
of the Christ principle gives license to Satan to run riot in the 
Holy Temple. The Advent of Christ drives the exile out with 
a whip of thongs. Reference to the temple, in the figurative 
language of the Bible and New Testament, always symbolizes 
the human organism. "Know ye not that your bodies are the 
Temple of the living God?" 

Solomon's temple is an allegory of the physicial body of man \ 
and woman. Soul — of man's temple — the house, church, Beth 
or temple made without sound of "saw or hammer." 

Hate, envy, criticism, jealousy, competition, selfishness, war, 
suicide and murder are largely caused by acid conditions of the 
blood, producing changes by chemical poison and irritation of 
the brain cells, the keys upon which Soul plays "Divine Har- 

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monies" or plays "fantastic tricks before high Heaven," accord- 
ing to the arrangement of chemical molecules in the wondrous 
laboratory of the soul. 

Without a proper balance of the alkaline salt, the agent of 
peace and love, man is fit for "treason, stratagem and spoils." 

The chemistry of life points to the reason why man is un- 
balanced. Poise of tissue, nerve fluid, blood and brain cells, as 
well as muscular fibre, are conditions precedent to mental or 
soul poise. A man thinks and acts according to the organism in 
or through which the Ego operates. 

The basis of the human body are twelve minerals, lime, iron, 
potash, silica, sodium, magnesia, etc., etc. They are found in 
the ashes of a cremated body, or, in reality, constitute the ashes. 
Before man ceases to be sick, before envy, strife, hatred, com- 
petition, selfishness, war and murder cease on earth, man must 
build his body on a plan that will express mind on the plane of 
altruism and love. 

The perfectly balanced body will enable mind to cognize one- 
ness of being. From this concept comes peace on earth and 
good-will between man and man. 

The knowledge of Life Chemistry will bring man to his 
Divine estate in the Kingdom of Harmony and Love. This 
Kingdom is forming in the chemicalizing mass of God's creative 
compounds. Out from the chemistry of elements, principles, 
monads and molecules ; out of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, car- 
bon, helium, unranium, radium, aurium, argentum, sodium, 
potassium and iron — out from molecules composing the body 
of universal energy, a man and woman will be born — real Sons 
of God — who will bear away the sins of the world. 



LESSON XL 

Sulphate of Soda. 

Synonyms — Natrum Sulphate, Sodium Sulphuricum, Sodae 
or Sodii Sulphas, Glauber's Salts. 

Farmula— Na 2 S0 4 10 H 2 0. 

This may be obtained by the action of Sulphuric acid on 
sodium chloride (common salt). 

This cell-salt is found in the intercellular fluids, liver and 
pancreas. Its principal work is to regulate the supply of water 
in the human organism. 

The blood becomes overcharged with water, either from the 
oxidation of organic matter or from inhaling air that contains 
more aqueous vapor (water) than is required to produce nor- 
mal blood. This condition of air is liable to prevail whenever 
the temperature is above 70 degrees. 

One molecule of nat. sulph. has the power, chemical intelli- 
gence, to take up and carry away two molecules, or twice its 
bulk, of water. The blood does not become overcharged with 
water from water taken into the stomach, but from the water 
lifted by expansion caused by heat above 70 degrees and held 
in the air and thus breathed into the arteries through the lungs. 
By the above we see that there is more work for this salt in hot 
weather than during cold weather. So-called malaria, Latin for 
bad air, is due to a lack of this tissue salt. Water, lifted from 
swamps or clear streams or lakes by the action of the sun's heat, 
is the same, for heat does not evaporate and lift poisonous, dis- 
integrating organic matter from a swamp or marsh, but the 
water only. 

Therefore, it is not some impurity in the air that causes 
chills, etc., but an oversupply of water which thins the bile and 
distributes it through the organism. Nature's effort to get rid 
of the surplus water by nervous, muscular and vascular contrac- 
tion, on the principle of wringing water from a cloth, causes the 
spasm called chills. Proof of this theory is found in the fact 

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that perspiration follows the chill. It generally requires about 
forty-eight hours to again overcharge the blood and bring on 
another chill. 

Cold dry air always cures chills, and be it known that all cold 
air is dry air. The cure for chills when cold air cannot be had 
is sodium sulphate in biochemic potency. Yellow fever is 
caused by too much water in bile and other liver fluids. These 
fluids are distributed through the system, and in their union 
with oil, albumen, etc., become vitiated and cause the yellow 
skin. 

Sodium Sulph. in crude form, is known as Glauber's Salts, 
and is too coarse to be taken up by the mucous membrane ab- 
sorbents and carried into the circulation; it must be triturated 
with sugar of milk, according to the biochemic method, up to 
the 3d or 6th decimal before using a remedy to supply the blood. 
Glauber's Salts, crude sodium sulphate, acts as a cathartic, and 
cathartics are never used in the biochemic system of healing. 

When man learns to keep his blood at the proper rate of 
motion by the proper dynamos — the mineral salts — he will not 
fear fevers, microbes, mosquitoes, nor devils. 



LESSON XII. 



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Silica. 

Synonyms — Silica, silic, oxide, white pebble or common 
quartz. Chemical abbrevitaion, Si. 

Made by fusing crude silica with carbonate of soda ; dissolve 
the residue, filter and precipitate by hydro-chloride acid. 

This product must be triturated as per biochemic process be- 
fore using internally. 

This salt is the surgeon of the human organism. Silica is 
found in hair, skin, nails, periosteum, the membrane covering 
and protecting bone, the nerve sheath, called neurilemma, and 
a trace is found in bone tissue. The surgical qualities of silica 
lie in the fact that its particles are sharp cornered. A piece of 
quartz is a sample of the finer particles. Reduce silica to an 
impalpable powder and the microscope reveals the fact that 
the molecules are still pointed and jagged like a large piece of 
quartz rock. In all cases where it becomes necessary that de- 
caying organic matter be discharged from any part of the body 
by the process of suppuration, these sharp pointed particles are 
pushed by the marvelous intelligence which operates without 
ceasing, day and night, in the wondrous human Beth, and like 
a lancet cuts a passage to the surface for the discharge of pus. 
Nowhere in all the records of physiology or biological research 
can anything be found more wonderful than the chemical and 
mechanical operation of this Divine artisan. 

The bone covering is made strong and firm by silica. In case 
of boils or anthrax carbuncle, the biochemist loses no time 
searching for "anthrax bacilli," or germs, nor does he experi- 
ment with imaginary germ-killing serum, but simply furnishes 
nature with tools with which the necessary work may be accom- 
plished. 

Silica gives the glossy finish to hair and nails. A stalk of 
corn or straw of wheat, oats or barley would not stand upright 
except they contained this mineral. 

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Out of the chemicalizing mass, out of the chemistry of ele- 
ments, principles, minerals and monads — out of oxygen, hydro- 
gen, nitrogen, carbon, helium, uranium, radium, arum, argen- 
tum, potassium sodium and iron — out from these molecules 
composing the substance of God a new man will be born, a real 
Son of God who will bear away the sins of the world. I see this 
form — physical body materializing out of the fomentation of 
life's creative compounds. 

Now hasten, vibration from Uranus, and vitalize the Etheric 
Substance that sweeps through the rivers of Eden — the veins 
and arteries that carry the red cells of omnipresent life. Touch 
with thy fingers of fire, Golden Haired Apollo, the keys of the 
new man's wondrous brain until every atom and fiber of the 
holy temple joins in the Anthem of the stars. And Neptune, 
thou planet of Realization ; at last thy hour has struck. Patient 
as the Divine Mother, thou hast waited for the man. 

Lift thy Trident, O Trinity of Life, Liberty and Love, and 
send to Earth thy pent up vibrations of glory : 

Lo ; the Aquarius Age ; — The new Heaven and new Earth ; — 

The Co-operative Commonwealth; — The Brotherhood of 
man. 



THE END 



